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Name

autoupdate - Update a configure.in 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: <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/ >.
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/ >.

Copyright

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.

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.


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