AUTOMAKE
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: May 2009
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NAME
automake - manual page for automake 1.11
 
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only update Makefile.in's that are out of date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.