ACLOCAL

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: January 2021
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NAME

aclocal - manual page for aclocal 1.16.2

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@redhat.com>

: and Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>.

REPORTING BUGS

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

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2020 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.