Scripts Go to the first , previous , next , last section, table of contents .
The configuration scripts that Autoconf produces are by convention called configure . When run, configure creates several files, replacing configuration parameters in them with appropriate values. Here is a diagram showing how the files that can be used in configuration are produced. Listing the conditionals in source code. Additionally, some macros rely on other macros having been called first, because they check previously set values of some variables to decide what to do.