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metaauto-1.0p4

wrapper for gnu auto*

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Description

GNU autotools tend to be incompatible from release to release. meta-auto is a try at alleviating the problem: it provides actual scripts, such as autoconf that will try to call the right tool based on a few environment variables, such as AUTOCONF_VERSION and AUTOMAKE_VERSION.

Package information

Ports path
devel/metaauto
Package architecture
*
Maintainer
Marc Espie <espie@openbsd.org>
Categories
devel
Available flavors
None listed

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