B.8 Concept Index

This is an alphabetical list of the files, tools, and concepts introduced in this document.

• ‘"$@"’: Shell Substitutions
• $(commands): Shell Substitutions
• $<, explicit rules, and VPATH: $< in Explicit Rules
• ${var=expanded-value}: Shell Substitutions
• ${var=literal}: Shell Substitutions
• ‘@&t@’: Quadrigraphs
• ‘@S|@’: Quadrigraphs
• ^ quoting: Shell Substitutions
• _m4_divert_diversion: New Macros
• `commands`: Shell Substitutions
• acconfig.h: acconfig.h
• aclocal.m4: Making configure Scripts
• Ash: Shellology
• autoconf: autoconf Invocation
• Autoconf upgrading: Autoconf 2.13
• Autoconf upgrading: Autoconf 1
• autoheader: autoheader Invocation
• Autoheader macros: Autoheader Macros
• Autom4te Library: autom4te Invocation
• autom4te.cache: autom4te Invocation
• autom4te.cfg: autom4te Invocation
• Automake: Automake
• Automatic remaking: Automatic Remaking
• automatic rule rewriting and VPATH: Automatic Rule Rewriting
• autopoint: autoreconf Invocation
• autoreconf: autoreconf Invocation
• autoscan: autoscan Invocation
• Autotest: Using Autotest
• AUTOTEST_PATH: testsuite Invocation
• autoupdate: autoupdate Invocation
• Back trace: autom4te Invocation
• Back trace: autoconf Invocation
• Bash: Shellology
• Bash 2.05 and later: Shellology
• Bootstrap: Bootstrapping
• BSD make and obj/: obj/ and Make
• buffer overruns: Buffer Overruns
• Build directories: Build Directories
• C function portability: Function Portability
• C types: Types
• Cache: Caching Results
• Cache variable: Cache Variable Names
• Cache, enabling: configure Invocation
• Canonical system type: Canonicalizing
• changequote: Changequote is Evil
• Coding style: Coding Style
• Command Substitution: Shell Substitutions
• Commands for configuration: Configuration Commands
• Comments in Makefile rules: Comments in Make Rules
• Common autoconf behavior: Common Behavior
• Compilers: Compilers and Preprocessors
• config.h: Configuration Headers
• config.h.bot: acconfig.h
• config.h.in: Header Templates
• config.h.top: acconfig.h
• config.status: config.status Invocation
• config.sub: Specifying Names
• Configuration actions: Configuration Actions
• Configuration commands: Configuration Commands
• Configuration file creation: Configuration Files
• Configuration Header: Configuration Headers
• Configuration Header Template: Header Templates
• Configuration links: Configuration Links
• configure: Running configure Scripts
• configure: Making configure Scripts
• Configure subdirectories: Subdirectories
• configure.ac: Making configure Scripts
• configure.in: Making configure Scripts
• Copyright Notice: Writing testsuite.at
• Copyright Notice: Notices
• Creating configuration files: Configuration Files
• Creating temporary files: Limitations of Usual Tools
• Cross compilation: Hosts and Cross-Compilation
• Darwin: Systemology
• datarootdir: Changed Directory Variables
• Declaration, checking: Declarations
• Default includes: Default Includes
• Dependencies between macros: Dependencies Between Macros
• Descriptors: File Descriptors
• descriptors: File Descriptor Macros
• Directories, build: Build Directories
• Directories, installation: Installation Directory Variables
• dnl: Coding Style
• dnl: Macro Definitions
• double-colon rules and VPATH: VPATH and Double-colon
• Endianness: C Compiler
• Erlang: Erlang Compiler and Interpreter
• Erlang, Library, checking: Erlang Libraries
• exiting portably: Exiting Portably
• explicit rules, $<, and VPATH: $< in Explicit Rules
• External software: External Software
• F77: Fortran Compiler
• FDL, GNU Free Documentation License: GNU Free Documentation License
• File descriptors: File Descriptors
• file descriptors: File Descriptor Macros
• File system conventions: File System Conventions
• File, checking: Files
• floating point: Floating Point Portability
• Forbidden patterns: Forbidden Patterns
• Fortran: Fortran Compiler
• Function, checking: Particular Functions
• Gettext: autoreconf Invocation
• GNU build system: The GNU Build System
• Gnulib: Gnulib
• Header portability: Header Portability
• Header templates: Header Templates
• Header, checking: Header Files
• Help strings: Pretty Help Strings
• Here-documents: Here-Documents
• History of autoconf: History
• ifnames: ifnames Invocation
• Imake: Why Not Imake
• Includes, default: Default Includes
• input: File Descriptor Macros
• Install prefix: Default Prefix
• Installation directories: Installation Directory Variables
• Instantiation: Output
• Introduction: Introduction
• Korn shell: Shellology
• Ksh: Shellology
• Language: Language Choice
• Large file support: System Services
• LFS: System Services
• Library, checking: Libraries
• Libtool: Libtool
• License: Copying This Manual
• License: Distributing
• Limitations of make: Portable Make
• Limitations of shell builtins: Limitations of Builtins
• Limitations of usual tools: Limitations of Usual Tools
• Links: Configuration Links
• Links for configuration: Configuration Links
• Listing directories: Limitations of Usual Tools
• low-level output: File Descriptor Macros
• M4: Programming in M4
• M4 quotation: M4 Quotation
• M4sugar: Programming in M4sugar
• Macro invocation stack: autom4te Invocation
• Macro invocation stack: autoconf Invocation
• Macros, called once: One-Shot Macros
• Macros, obsoleting: Obsoleting Macros
• Macros, ordering: Suggested Ordering
• Macros, prerequisites: Prerequisite Macros
• make -k: make -k Status
• make and MAKEFLAGS: The Make Macro MAKEFLAGS
• make and SHELL: The Make Macro SHELL
• Makefile rules and comments: Comments in Make Rules
• Makefile substitutions: Makefile Substitutions
• MAKEFLAGS and make: The Make Macro MAKEFLAGS
• Making directories: Limitations of Usual Tools
• Messages, from autoconf: Reporting Messages
• Messages, from configure: Printing Messages
• Moving open files: Limitations of Usual Tools
• Notices in configure: Notices
• null pointers: Null Pointers
• obj/, subdirectory: obj/ and Make
• Obsolete constructs: Obsolete Constructs
• Obsoleting macros: Obsoleting Macros
• obstack: Particular Functions
• One-shot macros: One-Shot Macros
• Options, package: Package Options
• Ordering macros: Suggested Ordering
• Output variables: Setting Output Variables
• Output variables: Preset Output Variables
• Output variables, special characters in: Special Chars in Variables
• output, low-level: File Descriptor Macros
• Outputting files: Output
• overflow, arithmetic: Integer Overflow
• Package options: Package Options
• package.m4: Making testsuite Scripts
• Patterns, forbidden: Forbidden Patterns
• portability: Varieties of Unportability
• Portability of C functions: Function Portability
• Portability of headers: Header Portability
• Portable C and C++ programming: Portable C and C++
• Portable shell programming: Portable Shell
• positional parameters: Shell Substitutions
• Posix termios headers: System Services
• Prefix for install: Default Prefix
• Preprocessors: Compilers and Preprocessors
• prerequisite directories and VPATH: OSF/Tru64 Directory Magic
• Prerequisite macros: Prerequisite Macros
• Previous Variable: Setting Output Variables
• Program names, transforming: Transforming Names
• Programs, checking: Alternative Programs
• QNX 4.25: Systemology
• quadrigraphs: Quadrigraphs
• quotation: M4 Quotation
• quotation: Autoconf Language
• Remaking automatically: Automatic Remaking
• Revision: Notices
• Rule, Single Suffix Inference: Single Suffix Rules
• Separated Dependencies: Single Suffix Rules
• SHELL and make: The Make Macro SHELL
• Shell assignments: Assignments
• Shell builtins: Limitations of Builtins
• Shell file descriptors: File Descriptors
• Shell here-documents: Here-Documents
• Shell parentheses: Parentheses
• Shell slashes: Slashes
• Shell substitutions: Shell Substitutions
• Shell variables: Special Shell Variables
• Shellology: Shellology
• Single Suffix Inference Rule: Single Suffix Rules
• Site defaults: Site Defaults
• Site details: Site Details
• Special shell variables: Special Shell Variables
• standard input: File Descriptor Macros
• Standard symbols: Standard Symbols
• Structure, checking: Structures
• Subdirectory configure: Subdirectories
• Substitutions in makefiles: Makefile Substitutions
• Symbolic links: Limitations of Usual Tools
• System type: Canonicalizing
• System type: Specifying Names
• Systemology: Systemology
• termios Posix headers: System Services
• test group: testsuite Scripts
• testsuite: testsuite Invocation
• testsuite: testsuite Scripts
• timestamp resolution: Timestamps and Make
• timestamp resolution: Limitations of Usual Tools
• Transforming program names: Transforming Names
• Tru64: Systemology
• Types: Types
• undefined macro: New Macros
• Unix version 7: Systemology
• Upgrading autoconf: Autoconf 2.13
• Upgrading autoconf: Autoconf 1
• V7: Systemology
• Variable, Precious: Setting Output Variables
• Version: Notices
• VPATH: VPATH and Make
• VPATH and automatic rule rewriting: Automatic Rule Rewriting
• VPATH and double-colon rules: VPATH and Double-colon
• VPATH and prerequisite directories: OSF/Tru64 Directory Magic
• VPATH, explicit rules, and $<: $< in Explicit Rules
• VPATH, resolving target pathnames: Make Target Lookup
• X Window System: System Services
• Zsh: Shellology