ACLOCAL
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: March 2022
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NAME
aclocal - manual page for aclocal 1.16.5
SYNOPSIS
aclocal
[,OPTION/]...
DESCRIPTION
Generate 'aclocal.m4' by scanning 'configure.ac' or 'configure.in'
OPTIONS
- --automake-acdir=,DIR/
-
directory holding automake-provided m4 files
- --system-acdir=,DIR/
-
directory holding third-party system-wide files
- --diff[=,COMMAND/]
-
run COMMAND [diff -u] on M4 files that would be
changed (implies --install and --dry-run)
- --dry-run
-
pretend to, but do not actually update any file
- --force
-
always update output file
- --help
-
print this help, then exit
- -I DIR
-
add directory to search list for .m4 files
- --install
-
copy third-party files to the first -I directory
- --output=,FILE/
-
put output in FILE (default aclocal.m4)
- --print-ac-dir
-
print name of directory holding system-wide
third-party m4 files, then exit
- --verbose
-
don't be silent
- --version
-
print version number, then exit
- -W, --warnings=,CATEGORY/
-
report the warnings falling in CATEGORY
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
AUTHOR
Written by Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
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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
aclocal
is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the
info
and
aclocal
programs are properly installed at your site, the command
-
info aclocal
should give you access to the complete manual.
Index
- NAME
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- OPTIONS
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- Warning categories include:
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- AUTHOR
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- REPORTING BUGS
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- COPYRIGHT
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- SEE ALSO
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