AUTOMAKE

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
AUTHOR
REPORTING BUGS
COPYRIGHT
SEE ALSO

NAME

automake − manual page for automake 1.11.1

SYNOPSIS

automake [OPTION] ... [Makefile]...

DESCRIPTION

Generate Makefile.in for configure from Makefile.am.

Operation modes:

−−help

print this help, then exit

−−version

print version number, then exit

−v, −−verbose

verbosely list files processed

−−no−force

only update Makefile.in’s that are out of date

−W, −−warnings=CATEGORY

report the warnings falling in CATEGORY

Dependency tracking:

−i, −−ignore−deps

disable dependency tracking code

−−include−deps

enable dependency tracking code

Flavors:

−−cygnus

assume program is part of Cygnus−style tree

−−foreign

set strictness to foreign

−−gnits

set strictness to gnits

−−gnu

set strictness to gnu

Library files:

−a, −−add−missing

add missing standard files to package

−−libdir=DIR

directory storing library files

−c, −−copy

with −a, copy missing files (default is symlink)

−f, −−force−missing

force update of standard files

Warning categories include:

‘gnu’

GNU coding standards (default in gnu and gnits modes)

‘obsolete’

obsolete features or constructions

‘override’

user redefinitions of Automake rules or variables

‘portability’

portability issues (default in gnu and gnits modes)

‘syntax’

dubious syntactic constructs (default)

‘unsupported’

unsupported or incomplete features (default)

‘all’

all the warnings

‘no−CATEGORY’

turn off warnings in CATEGORY

‘none’

turn off all the warnings

‘error’

treat warnings as errors

Files which are automatically distributed, if found:

ABOUT−GNU

README config.rpath ltcf−gcj.sh

ABOUT−NLS

THANKS config.sub ltconfig

AUTHORS

TODO configure ltmain.sh

BACKLOG

acconfig.h configure.ac mdate−sh

COPYING

aclocal.m4 configure.in missing

COPYING.DOC

ansi2knr.1 depcomp mkinstalldirs

COPYING.LESSER

ansi2knr.c elisp−comp py−compile

COPYING.LIB

compile install−sh stamp−vti

ChangeLog

config.guess libversion.in texinfo.tex

INSTALL

config.h.bot ltcf−c.sh ylwrap

NEWS

config.h.top ltcf−cxx.sh

AUTHOR

Written by Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>

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

REPORTING BUGS

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

COPYRIGHT

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.

SEE ALSO

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

info automake

should give you access to the complete manual.