AUTOMAKE

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

automake - manual page for automake 1.12.6  

SYNOPSIS

automake-1.12 [OPTION]... [Makefile]...  

DESCRIPTION

Generate Makefile.in for configure from Makefile.am.  

Operation modes:

--help

print this help, then exit

--version

print version number, then exit

-v, --verbose

verbosely list files processed

--no-force

only update Makefile.in's that are out of date

-W, --warnings=CATEGORY

report the warnings falling in CATEGORY

 

Dependency tracking:

-i, --ignore-deps

disable dependency tracking code

--include-deps

enable dependency tracking code

 

Flavors:

--cygnus

assume program is part of Cygnus-style tree

--foreign

set strictness to foreign

--gnits

set strictness to gnits

--gnu

set strictness to gnu

 

Library files:

-a, --add-missing

add missing standard files to package

--libdir=DIR

set directory storing library files

--print-libdir

print directory storing library files

-c, --copy

with -a, copy missing files (default is symlink)

-f, --force-missing

force update of standard files

 

Warning categories include:

gnu

GNU coding standards (default in gnu and gnits modes)

obsolete

obsolete features or constructions

override

user redefinitions of Automake rules or variables

portability

portability issues (default in gnu and gnits modes)

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

 

Files automatically distributed if found (always):

ABOUT-GNU

INSTALL config.sub ltconfig

ABOUT-NLS

NEWS depcomp ltmain.sh

AUTHORS

README elisp-comp mdate-sh

BACKLOG

THANKS install-sh missing

COPYING

TODO libversion.in mkinstalldirs

COPYING.DOC

ar-lib ltcf-c.sh py-compile

COPYING.LESSER

compile ltcf-cxx.sh texinfo.tex

COPYING.LIB

config.guess ltcf-gcj.sh ylwrap

ChangeLog

config.rpath

 

Files automatically distributed if found (under certain conditions):

acconfig.h

config.h.bot configure configure.in

aclocal.m4

config.h.top configure.ac stamp-vti

 

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 automake is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and automake programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info automake

should give you access to the complete manual.

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Index

NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

Operation modes:

Dependency tracking:

Flavors:

Library files:

Warning categories include:

Files automatically distributed if found (always):

Files automatically distributed if found (under certain conditions):

AUTHOR

REPORTING BUGS

COPYRIGHT

SEE ALSO