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ACLOCAL

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: January 2013
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NAME

aclocal - manual page for aclocal 1.12.6  

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:

syntax
dubious syntactic constructs (default)
unsupported
unknown macros (default)
all
all the warnings (default)
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>
and Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>.
 

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to <bug-automake@gnu.org>.
GNU Automake home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/>.
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>.  

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later <http://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
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
Warning categories include:
AUTHOR
REPORTING BUGS
COPYRIGHT
SEE ALSO