AUTOCONF(1)

✨ AUTOCONF(1) ✨

okay bestie, gather round, because we're talking about autoconf from the User Commands corner of the manual, and it is literally the girlboss that writes your configure scripts for you 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

autoconf — generate configuration scripts 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

autoconf [OPTION]... [TEMPLATE-FILE]

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So here's the tea ☕: autoconf generates a configuration script. From what, you ask? From a TEMPLATE-FILE if you hand it one, or from configure.ac if that's chilling in the directory, or else from configure.in. It's giving "I'll find something to work with, don't worry" 🫶

Where does the output go? If you gave it a TEMPLATE-FILE, it goes straight to standard output. If you didn't, it goes into configure. Slay.

👑 Operation modes 👑

• -h, --help — prints the help text, then dips. Bye 👋
• -V, --version — prints the version number, then dips.
• -v, --verbose — reports processing verbosely, aka it tells you everything, main character energy ✨
• -d, --debug — does not remove temporary files (so you can go snooping, no cap)
• -f, --force — considers all files obsolete
• -o, --output=FILE — saves the output in FILE (and just so you know, stdout is the default)
• -W, --warnings=CATEGORY — reports the warnings that fall in CATEGORY, and the default category is syntax

🎀 Warning categories include: 🎀

• cross — cross compilation issues
• obsolete — obsolete constructs (it's giving outdated, bestie)
• syntax — dubious syntactic constructs
• all — all the warnings, the whole buffet
• no-CATEGORY — turns off the warnings on CATEGORY
• none — turns off all the warnings, silence is golden 🔇
• error — warnings are error

Also! The environment variables M4 and WARNINGS are honored. Respect them 🙇‍♀️

🌈 Library directories 🌈

• -B, --prepend-include=DIR — prepends directory DIR to the search path
• -I, --include=DIR — appends directory DIR to the search path

🧚 Tracing 🧚

• -t, --trace=MACRO[:FORMAT] — reports the list of calls to MACRO
• -i, --initialization — also traces Autoconf's initialization process

⚠️ Heads up: in tracing mode, no configuration script is created. Like, zero. None. It's busy tracing instead, okay?

And FORMAT defaults to $f:$l:$n:$% — if you want the full lore on FORMAT, go peek at autom4te --help 👀

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille. Legends, fr fr 👑

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😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

Found a bug? Report it to <bug-autoconf@gnu.org>. GNU Autoconf home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/>. And for general help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>.

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⭐ COPYRIGHT ⭐

Copyright © 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/old-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. Not even a little one 💀

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• autoconf(1), automake(1), autoreconf(1), autoupdate(1), autoheader(1), autoscan(1), config.guess(1), config.sub(1), ifnames(1), libtool(1).

The full documentation for autoconf is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and autoconf programs are properly installed at your site, this command:

info autoconf

should give you access to the complete manual. Go get that knowledge, bestie 📚✨

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and that's the whole page!! this one's from GNU Autoconf 2.64, dated July 2009 — yeah she's an elder but she ATE and left no crumbs 👑💅 mwah, love u, go configure something 🦋