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📖 NAME

autoscan - Generate a preliminary configure.ac

🚀 Quick Reference

Use Case	Command	Description
Generate preliminary configure.ac	autoscan	Scans source files and creates configure.scan
Scan specific directory	autoscan SRCDIR	Examine source files in directory tree rooted at SRCDIR

📝 SYNOPSIS

autoscan [OPTION]... [SRCDIR]

🔍 DESCRIPTION

Examine source files in the directory tree rooted at SRCDIR, or the current directory if none is given. Search the source files for common portability problems, check for incompleteness of 'configure.ac', and create a file 'configure.scan' which is a preliminary 'configure.ac' for that package.

⚙️ OPTIONS

ℹ️ General Options

• -h, --help — ℹ️ print this help, then exit
• -V, --version — ℹ️ print version number, then exit
• -v, --verbose — ℹ️ verbosely report processing
• -d, --debug — 🔧 don't remove temporary files

📚 Library directories

• -B, --prepend-include=DIR — 📂 prepend directory DIR to search path
• -I, --include=DIR — 📂 append directory DIR to search path

👤 AUTHOR

Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.

🐛 REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to <bug-autoconf AT gnu.org>.
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📄 COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+/Autoconf: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>, <https://gnu.org/licenses/exceptions.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

autoconf(1), automake(1), autoreconf(1), autoupdate(1), autoheader(1), autoscan(1), config.guess(1), config.sub(1), ifnames(1), libtool(1).

The full documentation for autoscan is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and autoscan programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info autoscan

should give you access to the complete manual.

GNU Autoconf 2.71 August 2021 AUTOSCAN(1)