AUTOUPDATE(1)

📦 version 2.69, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💅 AUTOUPDATE — the autoupdate(1) glow-up

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for autoupdate, a User Command. It lives in section 1 of the manual. Sit down, hydrate, and let's get into it 💖

✨ NAME ✨

autoupdate — Update a configure.in to a newer Autoconf

like. it takes your crusty old file and makes it speak modern Autoconf. it's giving time machine but for syntax 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

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

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

So here's the tea 🍓: autoupdate updates each TEMPLATE-FILE — but only if you actually gave it one. If you didn't, it goes looking for configure.ac, and if that's not there either, it falls back to configure.in.

Either way, it rewrites them into the syntax of the current version of Autoconf. The original files are backed up, so no, you're not going to lose your stuff, breathe 😌💖

🔥 Operation modes 🔥

  • -h, --help — prints this help, then exits. classic. iconic. does exactly what it says 👑
  • -V, --version — prints the version number, then exits. tiny little flex ✨
  • -v, --verbose — verbosely reports processing. it will yap (affectionately) about what it's doing 💬
  • -d, --debug — don't remove temporary files. leaves the evidence behind, no cap 🔍
  • -f, --force — considers all files obsolete. everything is outdated bestie, no exceptions 💀

🌈 Library directories 🌈

  • -B, --prepend-include=DIR — prepend directory DIR to the search path. it goes first, main character energy 💅
  • -I, --include=DIR — append directory DIR to the search path. it goes at the end, humble but essential 🫶

💜 AUTHOR 💜

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

😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

Found a bug? Don't suffer in silence, tell the people:

Copyright © 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+/Autoconf: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>, <http://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. (yes, all caps, they mean it 🚨)

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

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. go read it, it's the director's cut 🎬

okay that's the whole page, you ate that 💖 this was GNU Autoconf 2.68b.25-19513, dated April 2012, and it's the AUTOUPDATE(1) page. periodt ✨

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