### 12.3 Other FSF Software

The Free Software Foundation, the organization behind the GNU project, has been unifying the build procedure for its tools for some time. Thanks to its tools ‘`autoconf`’ and ‘`automake`’, most packages now respond well to these simple steps, with no other intervention necessary:

    ./configure options
    make
    make install prefix=/usr/local/stow/package

Hopefully, these tools can evolve to be aware of Stow-managed packages, such that providing an option to ‘`configure`’ can allow ‘`make`’ and ‘`make install`’ steps to work correctly without needing to “fool” the build process.