Footnotes

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These variables are also called make macros in Make terminology, however in this manual we reserve the term macro for Autoconf's macros.

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Older Autoconf versions used ‘configure.in’. Autoconf 2.50 and greater promotes ‘configure.ac’ over ‘configure.in’. The rest of this documentation will refer to ‘configure.ac’, but Automake also supports ‘configure.in’ for backward compatibility.

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We believe. This work is new and there are probably warts. See section Introduction, for information on reporting bugs.

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There are other, more obscure reasons for this limitation as well.

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Much, if not most, of the information in the following sections pertaining to preprocessing Fortran 77 programs was taken almost verbatim from (make)Catalogue of Rules section `Catalogue of Rules' in The GNU Make Manual.

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For example, the cfortran package addresses all of these inter-language issues, and runs under nearly all Fortran 77, C and C++ compilers on nearly all platforms. However, cfortran is not yet Free Software, but it will be in the next major release.

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Automake's ‘dist’ and ‘distcheck’ rules had a bug in this regard in that they created directories even with ‘-n’, but this has been fixed in Automake 1.11.