DH_UPDATE_AUTOTOOLS_CONFIG(1)

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version 14.5ubuntu1 · 12 versions
, in ubuntu stonking

💖 DH_UPDATE_AUTOTOOLS_CONFIG 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the debhelper corner of the manual — this is the DH_UPDATE_AUTOTOOLS_CONFIG(1) page, section 1 of the debhelper man family. pull up a chair, grab your iced coffee, we're about to make your build system's little config gremlins behave. 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

dh_update_autotools_config — update autotools config files 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

dh_update_autotools_config [debhelper options]

like. that's it. that's the whole vibe. you run it, you hand it your regular debhelper options, and it goes to work. 💅

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so here's the tea, bestie: dh_update_autotools_config does exactly one thing and it does it flawlessly. it goes through your source tree and grabs every single occurrence of config.sub and config.guess and swaps them out for the up-to-date versions that live in the autotools-dev package. no cap, that's the whole job. 🌈

and because it would be so rude to just yank your files and not tell anyone, the originals get backed up — and then restored by dh_clean later on. so nothing is lost, everything is reversible, it's giving responsible queen. 🫶

not me being dramatic but fr fr, don't panic about your old files. they're safe. dh_clean has them. 💖

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

  • debhelper(7) — the main character of the franchise, go read it, iykyk 📖

and also, lowkey important: this program is a part of debhelper. it's not some random standalone thing, it's part of the whole squad. 💜

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> — the icon who wrote this. show some respect. 🎀

aaaand that's the page, bestie!! this was debhelper version 14.5ubuntu1, dated 2026-09-21, and honestly? iconic energy. go update those config files, slay, and remember: back up, restore, repeat. periodt. 💅✨🦋🌸🍓💖

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