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NAME
autoscan2.13 - help to create a configure.in file for a software pack-
age
SYNOPSIS
autoscan2.13 [ --help ] [ --macrodir=dir ] [ --verbose ] [ --version ]
DESCRIPTION
The autoscan2.13 program can help you create a configure.in file for a
software package. autoscan2.13 examines source files in the directory
tree rooted at a directory given as a command line argument, or the
current directory if none is given. It searches the source files for
common portability problems and creates a file configure.scan which is
a preliminary configure.in for that package.
You should manually examine configure.scan before renaming it to con-
figure.in; it will probably need some adjustments. Occasionally au-
toscan2.13 outputs a macro in the wrong order relative to another
macro, so that autoconf2.13 produces a warning; you need to move such
macros manually. Also, if you want the package to use a configuration
header file, you must add a call to AC_CONFIG_HEADER. You might also
have to change or add some #if directives to your program in order to
make it work with Autoconf (see ifnames2.13(1)), for information about
a program that can help with that job).
autoscan2.13 uses several data files, which are installed along with
the distributed Autoconf macro files, to determine which macros to out-
put when it finds particular symbols in a package's source files.
These files all have the same format. Each line consists of a symbol,
whitespace, and the Autoconf macro to output if that symbol is encoun-
tered. Lines starting with # are comments.
autoscan2.13 requires that a Perl interpreter is installed.
autoscan2.13 accepts the following options:
--help
-h Print a summary of the command line options and exit.
--macrodir=DIR
-m DIR Look for the installed macro files in directory DIR. You can
also set the AC_MACRODIR environment variable to a directory;
this option overrides the environment variable.
--verbose
Print the names of the fiels it examines and the potentially in-
teresting symbols it finds in them. This output can be volumi-
nous.
--version
Print the version number of Autoconf and exit.
SEE ALSO
autoconf2.13(1), autoheader2.13(1), autoreconf2.13(1), autoup-
date2.13(1), ifnames2.13(1)
AUTHORS
David MacKenzie, with help from Franc,ois Pinard, Karl Berry, Richard
Pixley, Ian Lance Taylor, Roland McGrath, Noah Friedman, David D. Zuhn,
and many others. This manpage written by Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@de-
bian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux autoconf2.13 package.
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