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authorDavid MacKenzie <djm@djmnet.org>1994-08-30 18:42:54 +0000
committerDavid MacKenzie <djm@djmnet.org>1994-08-30 18:42:54 +0000
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@@ -9,10 +9,11 @@ operating system features that the package can use, in the form of m4
macro calls.
Producing configuration scripts using Autoconf requires GNU m4. You
-should install GNU m4 (version 1.1 or later) before configuring
-Autoconf, so that Autoconf's configure script can find it. The
-configuration scripts produced by Autoconf are self-contained, so
-their users do not need to have Autoconf (or GNU m4).
+must install GNU m4 (version 1.1 or later, preferably 1.3 or later
+for better performance) before configuring Autoconf, so that
+Autoconf's configure script can find it. The configuration scripts
+produced by Autoconf are self-contained, so their users do not need to
+have Autoconf (or GNU m4).
Also, some optional utilities that come with Autoconf use Perl, TCL,
and the TCL packages Expect and DejaGNU. However, none of those