Short Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. The GNU Build System
3. Making configure Scripts
4. Initialization and Output Files
5. Existing Tests
6. Writing Tests
7. Results of Tests
8. Programming in M4
9. Writing Autoconf Macros
10. Portable Shell Programming
11. Manual Configuration
12. Site Configuration
13. Running configure Scripts
14. Recreating a Configuration
15. Obsolete Constructs
16. Generating Test Suites with Autotest
17. Frequent Autoconf Questions, with answers
18. History of Autoconf
A. Copying This Manual
B. Indices