GNU AutoGen/AutoOpts is a two-part project that serves two separate purposes. The two parts are combined because they are inextricably intertwined:
AutoGen is a tool designed to simplify the creation and maintenance of programs that contain large amounts of repetitious text. It is especially valuable in programs that have several blocks of text that must be kept synchronized. AutoOpts is both an example of that and a project in its own right. It is a very powerful configuration file, environment variable and command line option documentation and management tool consisting of a set of AutoGen templates and a run time library that nearly eliminates the hassle of managing, parsing and documenting program options. The self-referential example: http://www.gnu.org/software/autogen/man1-autogen.html New in 5.14 - December 29, 2011 Here are the 'NEWS' entries since the last release * getopt support has been improved. Developers using generated code that called that function had to arrange for the autoopts/option.h header to be available. That text is now inserted into the code. * dependency tracking improvements. renaming an output file confused the code and licensing files were not listed. * libopts did not provide the full executable path name in pzProgPath if it was not supplied in argv[0]. "pathfind(3GEN)" is now used in that case. * makefile-script function will now honor the "then", "else" and "in" keywords appearing at the end of a line. "makefile-script" splices lines together with a semi-colon and a backslash, add a leading tab to each line and double dollar sign characters, basically turning semi-ordinary shell scripts into scripts suitable for use with make. In the case of these keywords and certain operators, the semi-colon is now omitted. Additionally, it produces text that can be post-processed at configure time in that it will leave alone any lines starting with "@ifdef", "@ifndef", "@else" and "@endif". See the second argument to the AC_CONFIG_FILES() autoconf macro for details. AutoGen home: http://www.gnu.org/software/autogen/ primary ftp: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autogen/rel5.14/ .tar.gz: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autogen/rel5.14/autogen-5.14.tar.gz bug reports: autogen-users at the lists dot SourceForge net domain bug archive: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=7034 maintainer: Bruce Korb - bkorb at the usual GNU domain _______________________________________________ GNU Announcement mailing list <info-gnu@gnu.org> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu
