autoconf: autoconf (generate configuration scripts) autoconf: autoconf: GNU autoconf is an extensible package of m4 macros that produce shell autoconf: scripts to automatically configure software source code packages. autoconf: These scripts can adapt the packages to many kinds of UNIX-like autoconf: systems without manual user intervention. Autoconf creates a autoconf: configuration script for a package from a template file that lists the autoconf: operating system features that the package can use, in the form of m4 autoconf: macro calls. You must install the "m4" package to be able to use autoconf: autoconf. autoconf: