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6 autoconf - Generate configuration scripts
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9 autoconf [OPTION]... [TEMPLATE-FILE]
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12 Generate a configuration script from a TEMPLATE-FILE if given, or `con‐
13 figure.ac' if present, or else `configure.in'. Output is sent to the
14 standard output if TEMPLATE-FILE is given, else into `configure'.
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16 Operation modes:
17 -h, --help
18 print this help, then exit
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20 -V, --version
21 print version number, then exit
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23 -v, --verbose
24 verbosely report processing
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26 -d, --debug
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30 consider all files obsolete
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33 save output in FILE (stdout is the default)
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36 report the warnings falling in CATEGORY [syntax]
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38 Warning categories include:
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50 `no-CATEGORY'
51 turn off the warnings on CATEGORY
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60 Library directories:
61 -B, --prepend-include=DIR
62 prepend directory DIR to search path
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65 append directory DIR to search path
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67 Tracing:
68 -t, --trace=MACRO[:FORMAT]
69 report the list of calls to MACRO
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71 -i, --initialization
72 also trace Autoconf's initialization process
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74 In tracing mode, no configuration script is created. FORMAT defaults
75 to `$f:$l:$n:$%'; see `autom4te --help' for information about FORMAT.
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78 Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.
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81 Report bugs to <bug-autoconf@gnu.org>.
82 GNU Autoconf home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/>.
83 General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>.
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86 Copyright © 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+/Auto‐
87 conf: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>,
88 <http://gnu.org/licenses/exceptions.html>
89 This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
90 There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
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93 autoconf(1), automake(1), autoreconf(1), autoupdate(1), autoheader(1),
94 autoscan(1), config.guess(1), config.sub(1), ifnames(1), libtool(1).
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96 The full documentation for autoconf is maintained as a Texinfo manual.
97 If the info and autoconf programs are properly installed at your site,
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106GNU Autoconf 2.68b March 2012 AUTOCONF(1)