Footnotes

(1)

GNU Autoconf, Automake and Libtool, by G. V. Vaughan, B. Elliston, T. Tromey, and I. L. Taylor. New Riders, 2000, ISBN 1578701902.

(2)

There is no formal standard for Fortran preprocessors, but Sun have produced a preprocessor fpp, which is available for download at http://www.netlib.org/fortran/; this comes with a free-ish but not quite open-source licence. The documentation within that distribution is, in effect, a useful specification of a Fortran preprocessor syntax.

(3)

Because M4 is not aware of Sh code, especially conditionals, some optimizations that look nice statically may produce incorrect results at runtime.

(4)

Using defn.

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Yet another great name from Lars J. Aas.

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Yet another reason why assigning LIBOBJS directly is discouraged.

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