ACLOCAL(1)

📦 version 1.11.6, in debian bookworm, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble

🎀 ACLOCAL(1) 🎀 — User Commands ✨

Okay bestie, the manual name is aclocal, and it's the tool that's literally obsessed with aclocal.m4 💖

✨ NAME ✨

aclocal — manual page for aclocal 1.11.6 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

aclocal [OPTIONS] ...

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Okay so, aclocal is the one that generates aclocal.m4 by scanning configure.ac or configure.in 🔥 It's giving main character energy, no cap.

💜 OPTIONS 💜

  • --automake-acdir=DIR — point it at the directory holding automake-provided m4 files 🧚
  • --system-acdir=DIR — point it at the directory holding third-party system-wide files 🌈
  • --diff[=COMMAND] — run COMMAND (default diff -u) on the M4 files that would be changed. This one lowkey implies --install and --dry-run 👀
  • --dry-run — pretend to update stuff, but don't actually touch any files 🫶
  • --force — always update the output file, no matter what 💪
  • --help — print this help, then exit 🙈
  • -I DIR — add a directory to the search list for .m4 files 🍓
  • --install — copy third-party files into the first -I directory 🎀
  • --output=FILE — put the output in FILE (default aclocal.m4) ✨
  • --print-ac-dir — print the name of the directory holding system-wide third-party m4 files, then exit 🌸
  • --verbose — don't be silent, bestie 📣
  • --version — print the version number, then exit 💖
  • -W, --warnings=CATEGORY — report the warnings that fall 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: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/> 🆘

Copyright © 2011 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 aclocal is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and aclocal programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info aclocal

should give you access to the complete manual 📖

Stay iconic, bestie, and see you at the next build 💅✨ aclocal 1.11.6, July 2012 🎀

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