Man1 - automake-1.16.1
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NAME
automake - manual page for automake 1.16.5
SYNOPSIS
automake-1.16 [/OPTION/]… [/Makefile/]…
DESCRIPTION
Generate Makefile.in for configure from Makefile.am.
Operation modes:
- –help
- print this help, then exit
- –version
- print version number, then exit
- -v, –verbose
- verbosely list files processed
- –no-force
- only update Makefile.in’s that are out of date
- -W, *–warnings*=/CATEGORY/
- report the warnings falling in CATEGORY
Dependency tracking:
- -i, –ignore-deps
- disable dependency tracking code
- –include-deps
- enable dependency tracking code
Flavors:
- –foreign
- set strictness to foreign
- –gnits
- set strictness to gnits
- –gnu
- set strictness to gnu
Library files:
- -a, –add-missing
- add missing standard files to package
- *–libdir*=/DIR/
- set directory storing library files
- –print-libdir
- print directory storing library files
- -c, –copy
- with -a, copy missing files (default is symlink)
- -f, –force-missing
- force update of standard files
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
Files automatically distributed if found (always):
- ABOUT-GNU
- TODO install-sh mdate-sh
- ABOUT-NLS
- ar-lib libversion.in missing
- BACKLOG
- compile ltcf-c.sh mkinstalldirs
- COPYING
- config.guess ltcf-cxx.sh py-compile
- COPYING.DOC
- config.rpath ltcf-gcj.sh texinfo.tex
- COPYING.LESSER
- config.sub ltconfig ylwrap
- COPYING.LIB
- depcomp ltmain.sh
Files automatically distributed if found (as .md if needed):
- AUTHORS[.md]
- INSTALL[.md] README[.md] THANKS[.md]
- ChangeLog[.md]
- NEWS[.md]
Files automatically distributed if found (under certain conditions):
- README-alpha[.md]
- config.h.bot configure configure.in
- acconfig.h
config.h.top configure.ac stamp-vti
aclocal.m4
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 automake is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and automake programs are properly installed at your site, the command
info automake
should give you access to the complete manual.