aclocal-1.17 - Man Page
Generate aclocal.m4 by scanning configure.ac
Synopsis
aclocal [OPTION]...
Description
Generate 'aclocal.m4' by scanning 'configure.ac' or 'configure.in'
Options
- --automake-acdir=DIR
directory holding automake-provided m4 files
- --aclocal-path=PATH
colon-separated list of directories to search for third-party local 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, defaults to $WARNINGS
Warning categories are
- 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)
-W also understands
- all
turn on all the warnings
- none
turn off all the warnings
- no-CATEGORY
turn off warnings in CATEGORY
- error
treat all enabled warnings as errors
Author
Written by Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
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 © 2024 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 automake
should give you access to the complete manual.
Referenced By
The man page aclocal(1) is an alias of aclocal-1.17(1).