AUTOMAKE(1)

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

💖 AUTOMAKE(1) 💖

okay bestie, gather round — this is the manual page for automake, straight out of the User Commands section. it's giving build-system royalty, no cap 👑

✨ NAME ✨

automake — manual page for automake 1.16.5

🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

automake-1.16 [OPTION]... [Makefile]...

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

Generate Makefile.in for configure from Makefile.am. that's the whole assignment, and she ate 💅

🦋 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  • --no-force — only update Makefile.in's that are out of date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 🍓

  • --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 — set directory storing library files
  • --print-libdir — print 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 🚨

  • 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 — turn off warnings in CATEGORY
  • none — turn off all the warnings
  • error — treat warnings as errors

🧚 Files automatically distributed if found (always) 🧚

  • ABOUT-GNU
  • ABOUT-NLS
  • BACKLOG
  • COPYING
  • COPYING.DOC
  • COPYING.LESSER
  • COPYING.LIB
  • TODO
  • ar-lib
  • compile
  • config.guess
  • config.rpath
  • config.sub
  • depcomp
  • install-sh
  • libversion.in
  • ltcf-c.sh
  • ltcf-cxx.sh
  • ltcf-gcj.sh
  • ltconfig
  • ltmain.sh
  • mdate-sh
  • missing
  • mkinstalldirs
  • py-compile
  • texinfo.tex
  • ylwrap

🌸 Files automatically distributed if found (as .md if needed) 🌸

  • AUTHORS[.md]
  • ChangeLog[.md]
  • INSTALL[.md]
  • NEWS[.md]
  • README[.md]
  • THANKS[.md]

💜 Files automatically distributed if found (under certain conditions) 💜

  • README-alpha[.md]
  • acconfig.h
  • config.h.bot
  • config.h.top
  • configure
  • configure.ac
  • configure.in
  • stamp-vti
  • aclocal.m4

👑 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: <https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/>. General help using GNU software: <https://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>.

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.

fr fr, NO WARRANTY — to the extent permitted by law. read it, love it, live by it 🫶

🔗 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.

and that's the whole page, bestie 🎀 this was GNU automake 1.16.5, dated March 2022 — go forth and generate those Makefile.in files, main character 💖✨

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