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From: bje AT cygnus DOT com (Ben Elliston)
Subject: Re: autoconf NT?
1 Oct 1998 08:10:54 -0700 :
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.981001164759.18792A-100000.cygnus.gnu-win32@moshpit.cygnus.com>
References: <3611611D DOT 1D27F9B5 AT openmarket DOT com>
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To: Rob Davis <davis AT openmarket DOT com>
Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

> We use autoconf/m4 extensively for our applications on UNIX.

> Now that we are porting some of these apps to NT, is there a
> NT version of autoconf and m4?

Autoconf itself, is platform independent.  It is written in Bourne shell
and m4.

bash has been ported to NT, of course, via Cygwin.  M4 would not be a
difficult program to port.  Grab a copy from prep.ai.mit.edu in /pub/gnu
and try and compile it up.

Ben

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