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AUTOMAKE
Section: User Commands (1)Updated: January 2013
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NAME
automake - manual page for automake 1.12.6SYNOPSIS
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- only update Makefile.in's that are out of date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.