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NAME

autoupdate - Update a configure.ac to a newer Autoconf

SYNOPSIS

autoupdate [/OPTION/]… [/TEMPLATE-FILE/]…

DESCRIPTION

Update each TEMPLATE-FILE if given, or ’configure.ac’ if present, or else ’configure.in’, to the syntax of the current version of Autoconf. The original files are backed up.

Operation modes:

-h, –help
print this help, then exit
-V, –version
print version number, then exit
-v, –verbose
verbosely report processing
-d, –debug
don’t remove temporary files
-f, –force
consider all files obsolete

Library directories:

-B, *–prepend-include*=/DIR/
prepend directory DIR to search path
-I, *–include*=/DIR/
append directory DIR to search path

AUTHOR

Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to <bug-autoconf@gnu.org>.
GNU Autoconf home page: https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/.
General help using GNU software: https://www.gnu.org/gethelp/.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+/Autoconf: GNU GPL version 3 or later https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html, https://gnu.org/licenses/exceptions.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

*autoconf*(1), *automake*(1), *autoreconf*(1), *autoupdate*(1), *autoheader*(1), *autoscan*(1), *config.guess*(1), *config.sub*(1), *ifnames*(1), *libtool*(1).

The full documentation for autoupdate is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and autoupdate programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info autoupdate

should give you access to the complete manual.

Author: dt

Created: 2022-02-22 Tue 16:56