AUTOSCAN(1)

📦 version 2.71, in epel 9

✨ AUTOSCAN(1) ✨

okay bestie, so you know how configure.ac files are like, the blueprint for building a package? Well autoscan is the girl who shows up, snoops around your source tree, and is like "here's a preliminary version of that blueprint, you're welcome 💅". It lives in the User Commands section, iykyk.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

autoscan [OPTION]... [SRCDIR]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So basically, autoscan examines all the source files in the directory tree rooted at SRCDIR — or like, the current directory if you don't give it one. It's giving detective energy 🔍. It searches those source files for common portability problems, checks if your configure.ac is looking incomplete, and then creates a file called configure.scan which is a preliminary configure.ac for that package. Iconic, honestly.

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -h, --help — prints the help text and dips, like bye 👋
  • -V, --version — prints the version number and bounces, periodt
  • -v, --verbose — verbosely reports the processing, so you get all the tea ☕
  • -d, --debug — doesn't remove the temporary files, so you can snoop later 🕵️‍♀️

📚 Library directories:

  • -B, --prepend-include=DIR — prepends directory DIR to the search path, so it gets checked first 💖
  • -I, --include=DIR — appends directory DIR to the search path, so it's at the end, no cap

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille. We stan legends fr fr.

🐛 REPORTING BUGS 🐛

If something's broken (rude), report bugs to <bug-autoconf@gnu.org>.

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

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

Copyright © 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+/Autoconf: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>, <https://gnu.org/licenses/exceptions.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 at all bestie, don't come for us 😭.

🔥 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 off, documentation 💅.

✨ and that's the whole vibe ✨ — this iconic page is from GNU Autoconf 2.71, dated January 2021, and honestly? It ate. 🫶💖

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