AUTOUPDATE(1)

✨ AUTOUPDATE(1) ✨

okay bestie, so autoupdate is a lil section-1 user command and it's literally the glow-up artist for your old configure.in files 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

autoupdate — Update a configure.in to a newer Autoconf ✨

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

autoupdate [OPTION]... [TEMPLATE-FILE]...

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So here's the tea ☕: autoupdate takes every TEMPLATE-FILE you hand it and updates it to the syntax of the current version of Autoconf. No template files? No problem, it's got a whole fallback plan:

• if you give it TEMPLATE-FILE arguments, it updates each one of those 🫶
• otherwise, if configure.ac is present, that's the one it picks
• otherwise it goes for configure.in

And the original files are backed up, so nobody's losing their precious files, periodt 🙈

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⚙️ Operation modes:

• -h, --help — prints this help, then dips out 👋
• -V, --version — prints the version number, then dips out 👋
• -v, --verbose — reports processing verbosely, i.e. it tells you everything it's doing, main character energy 🗣️
• -d, --debug — does not remove temporary files, so you can go snooping later 🔍
• -f, --force — considers all files obsolete 😤 (yes, all of them, no chill)

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📚 Library directories:

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

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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/>
• 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. (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 autoupdate is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and autoupdate programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info autoupdate

should give you access to the complete manual 📖✨

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GNU Autoconf 2.64 🌸 July 2009 — and that's the whole page bestie, autoupdate said what it said, slay 💅🎀🦋