ACLOCAL(1)

NAME
aclocal - manual page for aclocal 1.16.1

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: <https://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>.

COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later <https://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.