The
autoupdate
program updates a
configure.in
file that calls
Autoconf macros by their old names to use the current macro names. In
version 2 of Autoconf, most of the macros were renamed to use a more
uniform and descriptive naming scheme. Although the old names still
work , you can make your
configure.in
files more readable and make
it easier to use the current Autoconf documentation if you update them
to use the new macro names.
If given no arguments,
autoupdate
updates
configure.in,
backing up
the original version with the suffix
~
(or the value of the
environment variable
SIMPLE_BACKUP_SUFFIX,
if that is set). If you
give
autoupdate
an argument, it reads that file instead of
configure.in
and writes the updated file to the standard output.
autoconf
accepts the following options:
--help
-h
Print a summary of the command line options and exit.
--macrodir=DIR
-m DIR
Look for the installed macro files in directory DIR. You can also
set the
AC_MACRODIR
environment variable to a directory; this
option overrides the environment variable.
David MacKenzie, with help from Franc,ois Pinard, Karl Berry, Richard
Pixley, Ian Lance Taylor, Roland McGrath, Noah Friedman, David
D. Zuhn, and many others. This manpage written by Ben Pfaff
<pfaffben@pilot.msu.edu> for the Debian GNU/Linux
autoconf
package.
