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17. Frequent Autoconf Questions, with answers

Several questions about Autoconf come up occasionally. Here some of them are addressed.

17.1 Distributing configure Scripts  Distributing configure scripts
17.2 Why Require GNU M4?  Why not use the standard M4?
17.3 How Can I Bootstrap?  Autoconf and GNU M4 require each other?
17.4 Why Not Imake?  Why GNU uses configure instead of Imake
17.5 How Do I #define Installation Directories?  Passing datadir to program
17.6 What is `autom4te.cache'?  What is it? Can I remove it?


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