#%Module1.0 module-whatis "part of the GNU autotools" module-url "http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/" module-license "GNU GPL v2/v3" module-maintainer "Achim Gsell " module-help " Autoconf is an extensible package of M4 macros that produce shell scripts to automatically configure software source code packages. These scripts can adapt the packages to many kinds of UNIX-like systems without manual user intervention. Autoconf creates a configuration script for a package from a template file that lists the operating system features that the package can use, in the form of M4 macro calls. "