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Description

autoconf is a tool that belongs to the autotools suite, also known as the GNU build system. The tool automates the process of generating the custom Makefiles necessary to build a program on different systems, with (perhaps) different compilers. When a program is built with the help of autoconf, the first step is to call the configure script: