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Various features of Automake can be controlled by options in the
Makefile.am. Such options are listed in a special variable named
AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS. Currently understood options are:
gnitsgnuforeigncygnus ¶Set the strictness as appropriate. The gnits option also implies
readme-alpha and check-news.
ansi2knr ¶path/ansi2knrTurn on automatic de-ANSI-fication. See Automatic de-ANSI-fication. If preceded by a path, the generated Makefile.in will look in the specified directory to find the ansi2knr program. Generally the path should be a relative path to another directory in the same distribution (though Automake currently does not check this).
check-news ¶Cause make dist to fail unless the current version number appears
in the first few lines of the NEWS file.
dejagnu ¶Cause dejagnu-specific rules to be generated. See Support for test suites.
dist-shar ¶Generate a dist-shar target as well as the ordinary dist
target. This new target will create a shar archive of the
distribution.
dist-zip ¶Generate a dist-zip target as well as the ordinary dist
target. This new target will create a zip archive of the distribution.
dist-tarZ ¶Generate a dist-tarZ target as well as the ordinary dist
target. This new target will create a compressed tar archive of the
distribution; a traditional tar and compress will be
assumed. Warning: if you are actually using GNU tar, then the
generated archive might contain nonportable constructs.
no-dependencies ¶This is similar to using ‘--include-deps’ on the command line, but is useful for those situations where you don’t have the necessary bits to make automatic dependency tracking work See Automatic dependency tracking. In this case the effect is to effectively disable automatic dependency tracking.
no-installinfo ¶The generated Makefile.in will not cause info pages to be built
or installed by default. However, info and install-info
targets will still be available. This option is disallowed at
‘GNU’ strictness and above.
no-installman ¶The generated Makefile.in will not cause man pages to be
installed by default. However, an install-man target will still
be available for optional installation. This option is disallowed at
‘GNU’ strictness and above.
no-texinfo.tex ¶Don’t require texinfo.tex, even if there are texinfo files in this directory.
readme-alpha ¶If this release is an alpha release, and the file README-alpha exists, then it will be added to the distribution. If this option is given, version numbers are expected to follow one of two forms. The first form is ‘MAJOR.MINOR.ALPHA’, where each element is a number; the final period and number should be left off for non-alpha releases. The second form is ‘MAJOR.MINORALPHA’, where ALPHA is a letter; it should be omitted for non-alpha releases.
A version number (e.g. ‘0.30’) can be specified. If Automake is not newer than the version specified, creation of the Makefile.in will be suppressed.
Unrecognized options are diagnosed by automake.
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