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autoconf - Generate configuration scripts
autoconf [OPTION]...
[TEMPLATE-FILE]
Generate a configuration script from a TEMPLATE-FILE
if given, or ‘configure.ac’ if present, or else ‘configure.in’. Output is sent
to the standard output if TEMPLATE-FILE is given, else into ‘configure’.
- -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
- -o, --output=FILE
- save output in
FILE (stdout is the default)
- -W, --warnings=CATEGORY
- report the warnings falling
in CATEGORY [syntax]
- ‘cross’
- cross compilation
issues
- ‘obsolete’
- obsolete constructs
- ‘syntax’
- dubious syntactic constructs
- ‘all’
- all the warnings
- ‘no-CATEGORY’
- turn off the warnings on CATEGORY
- ‘none’
- turn off all the warnings
- ‘error’
- warnings are error
The environment variables
‘M4’ and ‘WARNINGS’ are honored.
- -B, --prepend-include=DIR
- prepend
directory DIR to search path
- -I, --include=DIR
- append directory DIR to search
path
- -t, --trace=MACRO[:FORMAT]
- report the list of calls to MACRO
- -i, --initialization
- also trace Autoconf’s initialization process
In tracing
mode, no configuration script is created. FORMAT defaults to ‘$f:$l:$n:$%’;
see ‘autom4te --help’ for information about FORMAT.
Written by David J.
MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.
Report bugs to <bug-autoconf@gnu.org>.
GNU Autoconf home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/
>.
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/
>.
Copyright
© 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+/Autoconf: GNU GPL version
3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
>, <http://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.
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 autoconf
is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and autoconf programs are
properly installed at your site, the command
- info autoconf
should give
you access to the complete manual.
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