NAME
aclocal - manual page for aclocal 1.11.1
SYNOPSIS
aclocal [OPTIONS] ...
DESCRIPTION
Generate ‘aclocal.m4’ by scanning ‘configure.ac’ or ‘configure.in’
OPTIONS
--acdir=DIR
directory holding config files (for debugging)
--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 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>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2009 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.