OStatic

Have you ever wondered how the same program can work across so many different flavors of Unix?ﾠ One of the behind-the-scenes systems that makes this happen is GNU Autoconf, a program that makes it possible to write source code in a way that will work on many different computers.ﾠ Unix systems are largely, but not completely, source-code compatible, and Autoconf makes it possible for a programmer to identify these differences when the program is compiled, papering over them in the source code itself.ﾠ