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Bootstrapper - Creates a customized bootstrapping script

The bootstrapper program creates a customized bootstrap script by scanning the autoconf macros in a project's configure.in file and using them to determine which programs need to be used to create a usable configure script. It then creates a bootstrap script which is custom tailored to your project's configuration.

The resulting bootstrap script is useful for rebuilding the configure script and Makefile.in files, particularly for a project which may be downloaded off of a cvs server. By including a bootstrap script in a cvs repository, all auto generated files related to configure can be excluded from the cvs repository. It is also useful for a developer importing a new project onto a cvs repository. Running `make distclean' then `./bootstrap --clean' removes all auto-generated files, instead of removing them by hand.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://bootstrapper.sourceforge.net/
Source tarballhttp://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/bootstrapper/bootstrapper-0.2Beta.tar.gz?download
Source informationhttp://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=49838
Version 0.2 (beta) released on 2002-05-08
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2.
This is not a GNU package.

Documentation

User tutorial available in HTML format from http://bootstrapper.sourceforge.net/index.php?name=tutorial
Support contacts

Announce List<bootstrapper-news@lists.sourceforge.net> http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=49838

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers

Related information

Source repository:pserver:anonymous@cvs.bootstrapper.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/bootsrapper http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=49838
Interfacescommand line
Source languagesPerl, shell script
Use requirementsPerl
Source prerequisitesautoconf, automake, libtool, Bourne shell

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2002-05-31
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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