AUTOSCAN(1)

💖 AUTOSCAN 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this is the manual page for autoscan, one of the User Commands, and she is so helpful it's unreal 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

autoscan — the girl who generates you a preliminary configure.in 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

autoscan [OPTION]... [SRCDIR]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the vibe: autoscan goes and peeks at the source files in the directory tree that's rooted at SRCDIR — or, if you didn't hand her a SRCDIR at all, she just chills in the current directory 💅

then she does her little detective thing: she searches those source files for common portability problems, she checks whether configure.ac is looking incomplete (not me calling out your half-finished file 😭), and she creates a file called configure.scan, which is a preliminary configure.ac for that package. iconic behaviour, no notes ✨

• -h, --help — prints the help text, then dips out. that's it, that's the whole job 👑
• -V, --version — prints the version number, then exits. short and sweet fr fr
• -v, --verbose — reports what she's processing, verbosely. she's a yapper and we love her for it 🗣️
• -d, --debug — does not remove temporary files. lowkey a crime scene you're choosing to preserve, but okay 🔍

📚 Library directories 📚

• -B, --prepend-include=DIR — prepends directory DIR to the search path. she goes first, she's the main character 💅
• -I, --include=DIR — appends directory DIR to the search path. she's at the back of the line but still slaying 🎀

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille. legends, honestly 🫶

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😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

Report bugs to <bug-autoconf@gnu.org>.

GNU Autoconf home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/>.

General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>.

if something's broken, tell them!! they want to know!! don't just suffer in silence bestie 💀

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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. like, none. zero. nada. 🙈

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

info autoscan

should give you access to the complete manual. go read it, iykyk 📖✨

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and that's the whole page bestie!! this one's from GNU Autoconf 2.64, dated July 2009 — yeah she's a little vintage but she ate and left no crumbs 💖 mwah, go run her on your tree 🧚🌸