This project collects resources for converting an autotools build recipe to a bare makefile that can be read and modified by humans.
The "De-Autoconfiscation HOWTO" describes the conversion procedure.
The deconfig tool walks the code tree of a project with an autotools build recipe looking for conditional-configuration symbols that can be removed because they gate C11 or POSIX facilities. It generates a diff that can be inspected and fed to patch(1) to remove the unneeded code. It also generates environment-discovery directives that can be used by autodafe configure.
The makemake tool reduces a generated Makefile to an equivalent form suitable for human modification and with internal automake cruft removed. It is intended to be used with deconfig to enable completely severing a project from its autotools build recipe, leaving a bare Makefile in place.
The configure tool replaces autotools configure, but is fast and comparatively tiny, small enough to be realistically audited. It interprets directives generated by deconfig and appended to your makefile to do discovery about the build environment.
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The latter contains information about the prerequisites of this software and how to contribute to it.
Autotools delenda est!