Man1 - aclocal-1.16.1
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NAME
aclocal - manual page for aclocal 1.16.5
SYNOPSIS
aclocal [/OPTION/]…
DESCRIPTION
Generate ’aclocal.m4’ by scanning ’configure.ac’ or ’configure.in’
OPTIONS
- *–automake-acdir*=/DIR/
- directory holding automake-provided m4 files
- *–system-acdir*=/DIR/
- directory holding third-party system-wide files
- –diff[=/COMMAND/]
- run COMMAND [diff -u] on M4 files that would be changed (implies –install and –dry-run)
- –dry-run
- pretend to, but do not actually update any file
- –force
- always update output file
- –help
- print this help, then exit
- -I DIR
- add directory to search list for .m4 files
- –install
- copy third-party files to the first -I directory
- *–output*=/FILE/
- put output in FILE (default aclocal.m4)
- –print-ac-dir
- print name of directory holding system-wide third-party m4 files, then exit
- –verbose
- don’t be silent
- –version
- print version number, then exit
- -W, *–warnings*=/CATEGORY/
- report the warnings falling in CATEGORY
Warning categories include:
- cross
- cross compilation issues
- gnu
- GNU coding standards (default in gnu and gnits modes)
- obsolete
- obsolete features or constructions (default)
- override
- user redefinitions of Automake rules or variables
- portability
- portability issues (default in gnu and gnits modes)
- portability-recursive
- nested Make variables (default with -Wportability)
- extra-portability
- extra portability issues related to obscure tools
- syntax
- dubious syntactic constructs (default)
- unsupported
- unsupported or incomplete features (default)
- all
- all the warnings
- no-CATEGORY
- turn off warnings in CATEGORY
- none
- turn off all the warnings
- error
- treat warnings as errors
AUTHOR
Written by Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
and Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-automake@gnu.org>.
GNU Automake home page: https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/.
General help using GNU software: https://www.gnu.org/gethelp/.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv2+: GNU GPL
version 2 or later https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There
is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for aclocal is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and aclocal programs are properly installed at your site, the command
info aclocal
should give you access to the complete manual.