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Rationales for various aspects of the design of the GNU build system.
| • Wildcards | Why doesn’t Automake support wildcards? | |
| • Why GNU M4 | Why not use the standard M4? | |
| • Bootstrapping | Autoconf and GNU M4 require each other? | |
| • Why Not Imake | Why GNU uses configure instead of Imake
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| • History of Autoconf | ||
| • History of Automake |