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File automake.man of Package automake1_11
.\" Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc. .\" Copyright (C) 1998 Ben Pfaff. .\" .\" Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of .\" this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice .\" are preserved on all copies. .\" .\" Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this .\" manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire .\" resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission .\" notice identical to this one. .\" .\" Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual .\" into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions, .\" except that this permission notice may be stated in a translation approved .\" by the Foundation. .\" .TH AUTOMAKE 1 "28 Jan 2002" .SH NAME automake - automatically create Makefile.in's from Makefile.am's .SH SYNOPSIS .B automake [ .B -a | .B --add-missing ] [ .BR --amdir= DIR ] [ .BR --build-dir= DIR ] [ .B -c | .B --copy ] [ .B --cygnus ] [ .B -f | .B --force-missing ] [ .B --foreign ] [ .B --gnits ] [ .B --gnu ] [ .B --help ] [ .B -i | .B --ignore-deps ] [ .B --include-deps ] [ .B --no-force ] [ .B -o DIR ] [ .BR --output-dir= DIR ] [ .BR --srcdir-name= DIR ] [ .B -v | .B --verbose ] [ .B --version ] [ .B --Werror | .B --Wno-error ] .SH DESCRIPTION .PP To create all the .BR Makefile.in s for a package, run the .B automake program in the top level directory, with no arguments. .B automake will automatically find each appropriate .B Makefile.am (by scanning .BR configure.in ) and generate the corresponding .BR Makefile.in . Note that .B automake has a rather simplistic view of what constitutes a package; it assumes that a package has only one .BR configure.in , at the top. If your package has multiple .BR configure.in s, then you must run .B automake in each directory holding a .BR configure.in . .PP You can optionally give .B automake an argument; .B .am is appended to the argument and the result is used as the name of the input file. This feature is generally only used to automatically rebuild an out-of-date .BR Makefile.in . Note that .I automake must always be run from the topmost directory of a project, even if being used to regenerate the .B Makefile.in in some subdirectory. This is necessary because .I automake must scan .BR configure.in , and because .I automake uses the knowledge that a .B Makefile.in is in a subdirectory to change its behavior in some cases. .PP .I automake accepts the following options: .TP .BI -a .TP .BI --add-missing Automake requires certain common files to exist in certain situations; for instance .B config.guess is required if .B configure.in runs .BR AC_CANONICAL_HOST . Automake is distributed with several of these files; this option will cause the missing ones to be automatically added to the package, whenever possible. In general if Automake tells you a file is missing, try using this option. By default Automake tries to make a symbolic link pointing to its own copy of the missing file; this can be changed with \fB--copy\fP. .TP .BI --libdir=\fRDIR Look for Automake data files in directory DIR instead of in the installation directory. This is typically used for debugging. .TP .BI -c .TP .BI --copy When used with \fB--add-missing\fP, causes installed files to be copied. The default is to make a symbolic link. .TP .BI --cygnus Causes the generated .BR Makefile.in s to follow Cygnus rules, instead of GNU or Gnits rules. .TP .BI -f .TP .BI --force-missing When used with \fB--add-missing\fP, causes standard files to be rebuilt even if they already exist in the source tree. This involves removing the file from the source tree before creating the new symlink (or, with \fB--copy\fP, copying the new file). .TP .BI --foreign Set the global strictness to .BR foreign . .TP .BI --gnits Set the global strictness to .BR gnits . .TP .BI --gnu Set the global strictness to .BR gnu . This is the default strictness. .TP .BI --help Print a summary of the command line options and exit. .TP .BI -i .TP .BI --ignore-deps This disables the dependency tracking feature. .TP .BI --include-deps This enables the dependency tracking feature. This feature is enabled by default. This option is provided for historical reasons only and probably should not be used. .TP .BI --no-force Ordinarily .B automake creates all .BR Makefile.in s mentioned in .BR configure.in . This option causes it to only update those .BR Makefile.in s which are out of date with respect to one of their dependents. .TP .BI -o\ \fRDIR .TP .BI --output-dir=\fRDIR Put the generated .B Makefile.in in the directory DIR. Ordinarily each .B Makefile.in is created in the directory of the corresponding .BR Makefile.am . This option is used when making distributions. .TP .BI -v .TP .BI --verbose Cause Automake to print information about which files are being read or created. .TP .BI --version Print the version number of Automake and exit. .TP .BI --Werror .TP .BI --Wno-error .B --Werror will cause all warnings issued by .I automake to become errors. Errors affect the exit status of \fIautomake\fP, while warnings do not. \fB--Wno-error\fP, the default, causes warning to be treated as warnings only. .PP .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR aclocal (1), and the Texinfo documentation for automake .SH AUTHORS Automake was written primarily by David Mackenzie and Tom Tromey. This manpage written by Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@pilot.msu.edu> for the Debian GNU/Linux .B automake package.
