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aclocal

ACLOCAL(1)							   User Commands							ACLOCAL(1)

NAME

       aclocal - manual page for aclocal 1.15.1

SYNOPSIS

       aclocal [OPTION]...

DESCRIPTION

       Generate 'aclocal.m4' by scanning 'configure.ac' or 'configure.in'

OPTIONS

       --automake-acdir=DIR
	      directory holding automake-provided m4 files

       --system-acdir=DIR
	      directory holding third-party system-wide files

       --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 system-wide third-party 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

AUTHOR

       Written by Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>

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

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to <bug-automake@gnu.org>.
       GNU Automake home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/>.
       General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2017 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  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.

aclocal 1.15.1							    March 2018								ACLOCAL(1)