ACLOCAL(1)

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version 1.16.5 · 4 versions
, in debian bookworm, ubuntu jammy

✨ ACLOCAL(1) — bestie, let's talk aclocal 💖

okay so the manual name is aclocal and it's literally the tool that generates aclocal.m4 for you 🧚 ngl the whole vibe is "scan your files, make the m4 thing" and it's so iconic. 🔥

🌸 NAME

aclocal - manual page for aclocal 1.16.5 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS

aclocal [OPTION]...

💜 DESCRIPTION

okay so aclocal makes 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 the m4 files that automake provides 💖
  • --system-acdir=DIR — point it at the directory holding third-party system-wide files 🌈
  • --diff[=COMMAND] — runs COMMAND (default diff -u) on the M4 files that would get changed 👀 this one implies --install and --dry-run, so it's a sneaky preview mode 🙈
  • --dry-run — pretends to do stuff but doesn't actually update any files ✨
  • --force — always updates the output file, no questions asked 🔥
  • --help — prints the help and then exits 🫶
  • -I DIR — adds a directory to the search list for .m4 files 🧚
  • --install — copies third-party files into the first -I directory 💅
  • --output=FILE — puts the output in FILE (default aclocal.m4) 🦋
  • --print-ac-dir — prints the name of the directory holding system-wide third-party m4 files, then exits 🍓
  • --verbose — don't be silent, bestie, tell me everything 🗣️
  • --version — prints the version number, then exits 💜
  • -W, --warnings=CATEGORY — reports the warnings that fall in CATEGORY ⭐

🌈 Warning categories

okay so these are the warning categories you can pick from 👑

  • 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 — turns off warnings in CATEGORY 🙅
  • none — turns off all the warnings 💤
  • error — treats warnings as errors 😭

🫶 AUTHOR

Written by Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> and Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org> 💖 the real ones, honestly.

🦋 REPORTING BUGS

Copyright © 2021 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. 🙏

🧚 SEE ALSO

okay so the full documentation for aclocal is a Texinfo manual 📚 if the info and aclocal programs are properly installed at your site, run this and you get the complete manual:

info aclocal

GNU automake 1.16.5 · March 2022 · ACLOCAL(1) 🌈 bestie, that's the whole tea, love you, mwah 💖✨

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