ACLOCAL

NAME

aclocal − manual page for aclocal 1.16.1

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 AT redhat DOT com>

and Alexandre Duret−Lutz <adl AT gnu DOT org>.

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to <bug−automake AT gnu DOT org>.
GNU Automake home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/>.
General help using GNU software: <https://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2018 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 aclocal

should give you access to the complete manual.