autoconf - Unix, Linux Command

NAME

autoconf - Generate configuration scripts

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:

Tag	Description
-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 [syntax]

Warning categories include:

Tag	Description
‘cross’
	cross compilation issues
‘obsolete’
	obsolete constructs
‘syntax’
	dubious syntactic constructs
‘all’	all the warnings
‘no-CATEGORY’
	turn off the warnings on CATEGORY
‘none’	turn off all the warnings
‘error’
	warnings are error

The environment variable ‘WARNINGS’ is honored.

Library directories:

Tag	Description
-B, --prepend-include=DIR
	prepend directory DIR to search path
-I, --include=DIR
	append directory DIR to search path

Tracing:

Tag	Description
-t, --trace=MACRO
	report the list of calls to MACRO
-i, --initialization
	also trace Autoconf’s initialization process

In tracing mode, no configuration script is created.

AUTHOR

Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to <bug-autoconf@gnu.org>.