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 NOTE: sometime "pretty soon", tar.gz files will not be distributed. New in 5.16 - May, 2012 NEWS entries since the last release: * AutoGen now supports the "-MP" option. The "phony" rule generated in the make dependency file will remove all generated files, except for the dependency file itself. Please see the docs for "-MF". * "break", "continue", and "return" macros implemented. "return" works in included templates and invoked macros (user defined macros). "break" and "continue" work within "for" and "while" loops, though they cannot be used to leave invoked or included templates. * texi documentation generation has been much improved. Please see the "Option Sectioning Comment" documentation. * configuring with --disable-static should now pass make check * AutoOpts supports a "die-code" attribute. It will generate code for "die", "diev" and "fserr" functions that will print a farewell message and die. * a keyword option value of "-1" or "~0" now means "largest value". * much improved .texi documentation templates. * de-tabbed "here strings" may have output lines prefixed with tabs by backslash escaping the first tab to output. * -Werror may be appended by "=warn-group". That is accommodated now. * many warning fixes and CamelCase name removals AutoGen home: http://www.gnu.org/software/autogen/ primary ftp: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autogen/rel5.16/ .tar.gz: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autogen/rel5.16/autogen-5.16.tar.gz (deprecated) .tar.xz: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autogen/rel5.16/autogen-5.16.tar.xz bug reports: autogen-users at the lists dot SourceForge net domain bug archive: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=autogen-users 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
