AUTOMAKE
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: May 2009
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NAME
automake - manual page for automake 1.11
SYNOPSIS
automake
[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only update Makefile.in's that are out of date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:
- --cygnus
-
assume program is part of Cygnus-style tree
- --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
-
directory storing library files
- -c, --copy
-
with -a, copy missing files (default is symlink)
- -f, --force-missing
-
force update of standard files
Warning categories include:
- `gnu'
-
GNU coding standards (default in gnu and gnits modes)
- `obsolete'
-
obsolete features or constructions
- `override'
-
user redefinitions of Automake rules or variables
- `portability'
-
portability issues (default in gnu and gnits modes)
- `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 which are automatically distributed, if found:
- ABOUT-GNU
-
README config.rpath ltcf-gcj.sh
- ABOUT-NLS
-
THANKS config.sub ltconfig
- AUTHORS
-
TODO configure ltmain.sh
- BACKLOG
-
acconfig.h configure.ac mdate-sh
- COPYING
-
aclocal.m4 configure.in missing
- COPYING.DOC
-
ansi2knr.1 depcomp mkinstalldirs
- COPYING.LESSER
-
ansi2knr.c elisp-comp py-compile
- COPYING.LIB
-
compile install-sh stamp-vti
- ChangeLog
-
config.guess libversion.in texinfo.tex
- INSTALL
-
config.h.bot ltcf-c.sh ylwrap
- NEWS
-
config.h.top ltcf-cxx.sh
AUTHOR
Written by Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
-
and Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-automake@gnu.org>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later <http://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.