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📛 NAME

automake - manual page for automake 1.16.5

🚀 Quick Reference

Use Case	Command	Description
Generate Makefile.in	automake	Process Makefile.am into Makefile.in
Verbose processing	automake -v	List files as they are processed
Add missing standard files	automake -a	Add required boilerplate files
Copy missing files	automake -a -c	Copy (not symlink) missing files
Force update of standard files	automake -f	Overwrite existing standard files
Ignore dependency tracking	automake -i	Disable dependency tracking code
Foreign strictness	automake --foreign	Relax GNU standards requirements
GNU strictness	automake --gnu	Enforce GNU coding standards (default)
Gnits strictness	automake --gnits	Strictest check, for GNU maintainers
Enable warnings	automake -W CATEGORY	Report warnings of a given category
Treat warnings as errors	automake -W error	Turn all warnings into errors

📋 SYNOPSIS

automake-1.16 [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• --no-force — only update Makefile.in's that are out of date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

• --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

Warning categories include:

• cross — cross compilation issues
• gnu — GNU coding standards (default in gnu and gnits modes)
• obsolete — obsolete features or constructions (default)
• override — user redefinitions of Automake rules or variables
• portability — portability issues (default in gnu and gnits modes)
• portability-recursive — nested Make variables (default with -Wportability)
• 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
• TODO
• install-sh
• mdate-sh
• ABOUT-NLS
• ar-lib
• libversion.in
• missing
• BACKLOG
• compile
• ltcf-c.sh
• mkinstalldirs
• COPYING
• config.guess
• ltcf-cxx.sh
• py-compile
• COPYING.DOC
• config.rpath
• ltcf-gcj.sh
• texinfo.tex
• COPYING.LESSER
• config.sub
• ltconfig
• ylwrap
• COPYING.LIB
• depcomp
• ltmain.sh

📁 Files automatically distributed if found (as .md if needed)

• AUTHORS[.md]
• INSTALL[.md]
• README[.md]
• THANKS[.md]
• ChangeLog[.md]
• NEWS[.md]

📁 Files automatically distributed if found (under certain conditions)

• README-alpha[.md]
• config.h.bot
• configure
• configure.in
• acconfig.h
• config.h.top
• configure.ac
• stamp-vti
• aclocal.m4

👤 AUTHOR

Written by Tom Tromey <tromey AT redhat.com>

and Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl AT gnu.org>.

🐛 REPORTING BUGS

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

©️ COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2021 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 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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