ACLOCAL

aclocal − manual page for aclocal 1.11.1

aclocal [OPTIONS] ...

Generate ‘aclocal.m4’ by scanning ‘configure.ac’ or ‘configure.in’

−−acdir=DIR

directory holding config files (for debugging)

−−diff[=COMMAND]

run COMMAND [diff −u] on M4 files that would be changed (implies −−install and −−dry−run)

−−dry−run

pretend to, but do not actually update any file

−−force

always update output file

−−help

print this help, then exit

−I DIR

add directory to search list for .m4 files

−−install

copy third−party files to the first −I directory

−−output=FILE

put output in FILE (default aclocal.m4)

−−print−ac−dir

print name of directory holding m4 files, then exit

−−verbose

don’t be silent

−−version

print version number, then exit

−W, −−warnings=CATEGORY

report the warnings falling in CATEGORY

Warning categories include:

‘syntax’

dubious syntactic constructs (default)

‘unsupported’

unknown macros (default)

‘all’

all the warnings (default)

‘no−CATEGORY’

turn off warnings in CATEGORY

‘none’

turn off all the warnings

‘error’

treat warnings as errors

Written by Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>

and Alexandre Duret−Lutz <adl@gnu.org>.

Report bugs to <bug−automake@gnu.org>.

Copyright © 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later <http://gnu.org/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.

The full documentation for aclocal is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and aclocal programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info aclocal

should give you access to the complete manual.