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To create all the Makefile.ins for a package, run the
automake program in the top level directory, with no arguments.
automake will automatically find each appropriate
Makefile.am (by scanning configure.in; see Scanning configure.in)
and generate the corresponding Makefile.in. Note that
automake has a rather simplistic view of what constitutes a
package; it assumes that a package has only one configure.in, at
the top. If your package has multiple configure.ins, then you
must run automake in each directory holding a
configure.in.
You can optionally give automake an argument; .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out-of-date Makefile.in. Note that automake must always
be run from the topmost directory of a project, even if being used to
regenerate the Makefile.in in some subdirectory. This is
necessary because automake must scan configure.in, and
because automake uses the knowledge that a Makefile.in is
in a subdirectory to change its behavior in some cases.
automake accepts the following options:
Automake requires certain common files to exist in certain situations;
for instance config.guess is required if configure.in runs
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 --copy.
Look for Automake data files in directory dir instead of in the installation directory. This is typically used for debugging.
Tell Automake where the build directory is. This option is used when
including dependencies into a Makefile.in generated by make
dist; it should not be used otherwise.
When used with --add-missing, causes installed files to be
copied. The default is to make a symbolic link.
Causes the generated Makefile.ins to follow Cygnus rules, instead
of GNU or Gnits rules. For more information, see The effect of --cygnus.
Set the global strictness to ‘foreign’. For more information, see Strictness.
Set the global strictness to ‘gnits’. For more information, see
The effect of --gnu and --gnits.
Set the global strictness to ‘gnu’. For more information, see
The effect of --gnu and --gnits. This is the default strictness.
Print a summary of the command line options and exit.
Include all automatically generated dependency information (see Automatic dependency tracking) in the generated Makefile.in. This is generally done when making a distribution; see What Goes in a Distribution.
Generate a file concatenating all automatically generated dependency information (see Automatic dependency tracking) into one file, .dep_segment. This is generally done when making a distribution; see What Goes in a Distribution. It is useful when maintaining a SMakefile or makefiles for other platforms (Makefile.DOS, etc.) It can only be used in conjunction with ‘--include-deps’, ‘--srcdir-name’, and ‘--build-dir’. Note that if this option is given, no other processing is done.
Ordinarily automake creates all Makefile.ins mentioned in
configure.in. This option causes it to only update those
Makefile.ins which are out of date with respect to one of their
dependents.
Put the generated Makefile.in in the directory dir. Ordinarily each Makefile.in is created in the directory of the corresponding Makefile.am. This option is used when making distributions.
Tell Automake the name of the source directory associated with the
current build. This option is used when including dependencies into a
Makefile.in generated by make dist; it should not be used
otherwise.
Cause Automake to print information about which files are being read or created.
Print the version number of Automake and exit.
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