AUTOMAKE(1)

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AUTOMAKE(1) 💖 — User Commands

okay bestie, welcome to the automake page from User Commands! This is the GNU automake manual, and we are gonna go through every flag, every warning category, every file list, and the legal bits together. no cap. ✨

🌸 NAME

automake — generate Makefile.in files for configure from Makefile.am. 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS

automake [OPTION]... [Makefile]...

✨ DESCRIPTION

Generate Makefile.in for configure from Makefile.am. That's literally the whole vibe of the program, fr fr.

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  • --no-force — only update Makefile.in's that are out of date.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

  • 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).

🧠 -W also understands:

  • all — turn on all the warnings.
  • none — turn off all the warnings.
  • no-CATEGORY — turn off warnings in CATEGORY.
  • error — treat all enabled warnings as errors.

📦 Files automatically distributed if found (always):

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

📄 Files automatically distributed if found (as .md if needed):

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

🫶 Files automatically distributed if found (under certain conditions):

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

👑 AUTHOR

Written by Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> and Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>.

🐛 REPORTING BUGS

Features: subsecond-mtime.

Copyright © 2024 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

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.

okay bestie, that's the whole page — source/version: GNU automake 1.17, date: May 2025. go slay your build system 💖✨

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