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📛 NAME

autoconf - Generate configuration scripts

🚀 Quick Reference

Use Case	Command	Description
Generate default configure	autoconf	Creates configure from configure.ac
Specify input file	autoconf -o configure myconfigure.ac	Output to a specific file
Verbose processing	autoconf -v	Show detailed processing steps
Debug (keep temp files)	autoconf -d	Retain temporary files for inspection
Force regeneration	autoconf -f	Treat all files as obsolete
Trace macro calls	autoconf -t MACRO	List calls to a specific macro
Add to search path	autoconf -I /path/to/dir	Append directory to search path
Show warnings	autoconf -W all	Show all warnings

📖 SYNOPSIS

autoconf [OPTION]... [TEMPLATE-FILE]

📄 DESCRIPTION

Generate a configuration script from a TEMPLATE-FILE if given, or 'configure.ac' if present, or else 'configure.in'. Output is sent to the standard output if TEMPLATE-FILE is given, else into 'configure'.

🔧 Operation modes:

-h, --help 🆘 print this help, then exit -V, --version 🔢 print version number, then exit -v, --verbose 🗣️ verbosely report processing -d, --debug 🐛 don't remove temporary files -f, --force ⚡ consider all files obsolete -o, --output=FILE 💾 save output in FILE (stdout is the default) -W, --warnings=CATEGORY ⚙️ report the warnings falling in CATEGORY

⚠️ 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

The environment variables 'M4' and 'WARNINGS' are honored.

📚 Library directories:

-B, --prepend-include=DIR ⬆️ prepend directory DIR to search path -I, --include=DIR ➕ append directory DIR to search path

🔍 Tracing:

-t, --trace=MACRO[:FORMAT] 🔎 report the list of calls to MACRO -i, --initialization 🏁 also trace Autoconf's initialization process

In tracing mode, no configuration script is created. FORMAT defaults to '$f:$l:$n:$%'; see autom4te --help for information about FORMAT.

👤 AUTHOR

Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.

🐛 REPORTING BUGS

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

© 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 autoconf is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and autoconf programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info autoconf

should give you access to the complete manual.

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