From 4066cb9dac18b2500f4f075a6bea3d65e1e22b13 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Juri <juri.dispan@posteo.net>
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2022 03:45:08 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] autoconf: add page (#8508)

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 pages/common/autoconf.md | 16 ++++++++++++++++
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 create mode 100644 pages/common/autoconf.md

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+# autoconf
+
+> Generate configuration scripts to automatically configure software source code packages.
+> More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf>.
+
+- Generate a configuration script from `configure.ac` (if present) or `configure.in` and save this script to `configure`:
+
+`autoconf`
+
+- Generate a configuration script from the specified template; output to stdout:
+
+`autoconf {{template-file}}`
+
+- Generate a configuration script from the specified template (even if the input file has not changed) and write the output to a file:
+
+`autoconf --force --output={{outfile}} {{template-file}}`