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audiFanatic
audiFanatic

Reputation: 2504

Difference between autoconf and autoreconf

I'm trying to learn how to use autotools and I can't seem to find a good beginner-friendly answer to this question. What's the difference between autoconf and autoreconf.

Upvotes: 30

Views: 11130

Answers (1)

Hartmut Holzgraefe
Hartmut Holzgraefe

Reputation: 2765

autoconf generates the configure script from various input files, some of which are created using other tools like aclocal, automake, etc.

autoreconf is a helper that knows how to call all these tools in the right order

You'll usually just call autoreconf yourself and let it deal with all the lower level tools ....

Upvotes: 35

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