GNU AutoGen/AutoOpts is a two-part project that serves two separate purposes. The two parts are combined because they are inextricably intertwined:
AutoGen is a tool designed to simplify the creation and maintenance of programs that contain large amounts of repetitious text. It is especially valuable in programs that have several blocks of text that must be kept synchronized. AutoOpts is both an example of that and a project in its own right. It is a very powerful configuration file, environment variable and command line option documentation and management tool consisting of a set of AutoGen templates and a run time library that nearly eliminates the hassle of managing, parsing and documenting program options. The self-referential example: http://www.gnu.org/software/autogen/man1-autogen.html There are several other examples embedded in AutoGen: A finite state machine generator, string name to enumeration value conversions, and bit map and bit mask management, to name a few. New in 5.18.14 - July, 2018 NEWS entries since the last release: * several configury fixes to enable cross platform building. * completion of a change in "char-mapper" to enable bootstrapping * Guile 1.8 support was removed * Replace AG_SCM_STR02SCM with scm_from_latin1_string this breaks Guile 1.8. * adaptations for cross compiling * no more generating autoconf macros * fix internal implementation of forking off autogen in xml2ag * when calling abort() causes problems, exit() can now be called (via an option) instead. * add support for nanosecond precision in file times * suppress dumb warnings about embedded NUL bytes in formats. AutoGen home: http://www.gnu.org/software/autogen/ primary ftp: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autogen/rel5.18.14/ .tar.gz: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autogen/rel5.18.14/autogen-5.18.14.tar.gz .tar.xz: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autogen/rel5.18.14/autogen-5.18.14.tar.xz bug reports: autogen-users at the lists dot SourceForge net domain bug archive: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=autogen-users maintainer: Bruce Korb - bkorb at the usual GNU domain -- If you have a working or partly working program that you'd like to offer to the GNU project as a GNU package, see https://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html.