Autotools Bootstrapper

[Anthony Ventimiglia]

http://bootstrapper.sourceforge.net/

        The bootstrapper program is used to create a customized bootstrap 
script 
by scanning a project's configure.in file. By scanning the autoconf macros 
in configure.in , bootstrapper determines which programs need to be used to 
create a usable configure script, then creates a bootstrap script which is 
custom tailored to your project's configuration.

      The resulting bootstrap script is nice for a developer to rebuild the 
configure script and Makefile.in files. It is especially nice for a project 
which may be downloaded off of a cvs server. By including a bootstrap 
script in a cvs repository, all auto generated files related to configure 
can be excluded from the cvs repository.

      On the other side it is also useful for a developer importing a new 
project onto a cvs repository. Instead of removing auto-generated files by 
hand, one would simply have to run `make distclean' then `./bootstrap 
--clean' to remove all auto-generated files.

(Note: "bootstrapper" is not a GNU project, but this release announcement
may be of interest to developers working with GNU tools. "bootstrapper" is
free software.  - FSF staff)