I am trying to build a project and it throws me an error : autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf --force configure.ac:19: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_SUBST If this token and others are ...

I am distributing a tarball with installation scripts generated by autoconf version 2.69. Works fine on many different machines. Now a user, working on a fresh Arch Linux system, reports that confi...

I am newbie of Autotools. From my understanding, one would use the following basic steps to build software using Autotools: autoreconf --install ./configure make However, I noticed that most ope...

I have an installed library we'll call it "custom_lib" which I am linking against. I want to check if that library was installed with a specific option. The options.h header file in that library ...

What are the .deb packages needed to run these commands on a debian wheezy Linux? cd software_that_builds_with_autotools autoreconf --install &&\ ./configure --prefix=/opt/foo/bar &&am...

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.