Be sure to read the previous section, Performing Configuration Actions.
Make AC_OUTPUT create each file by copying an input
file (by default file.in), substituting the output variable
values.
This macro is one of the instantiating macros; see Performing Configuration Actions. See Substitutions in Makefiles, for more information on using
output variables. See Setting Output Variables, for more information
on creating them. This macro creates the directory that the file is in
if it doesn’t exist. Usually, makefiles are created this way,
but other files, such as .gdbinit, can be specified as well.
Typical calls to AC_CONFIG_FILES look like this:
AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile src/Makefile man/Makefile X/Imakefile]) AC_CONFIG_FILES([autoconf], [chmod +x autoconf])
You can override an input file name by appending to file a colon-separated list of input files. Examples:
AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile:boiler/top.mk:boiler/bot.mk]
[lib/Makefile:boiler/lib.mk])
Doing this allows you to keep your file names acceptable to DOS variants, or to prepend and/or append boilerplate to the file.
The file names should not contain shell metacharacters. See Special Characters in Output Variables.