(automk14.info.gz) Invoking Automake

 
 4 Creating a `Makefile.in'
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 To create all the `Makefile.in's 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';  configure) 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.in's, 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 out-of-date `Makefile.in'.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:
 
 `-a'
 `--add-missing'
      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'.
 
 `--amdir=DIR'
      Look for Automake data files in directory DIR instead of in the
      installation directory.  This is typically used for debugging.
 
 `--build-dir=DIR'
      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.
 
 `-c'
 
 `--copy'
      When used with `--add-missing', causes installed files to be
      copied.  The default is to make a symbolic link.
 
 `--cygnus'
      Causes the generated `Makefile.in's to follow Cygnus rules, instead
      of GNU or Gnits rules.  For more information, see  Cygnus.
 
 `--foreign'
      Set the global strictness to `foreign'.  For more information, see
       Strictness.
 
 `--gnits'
      Set the global strictness to `gnits'.  For more information, see
       Gnits.
 
 `--gnu'
      Set the global strictness to `gnu'.  For more information, see
       Gnits.  This is the default strictness.
 
 `--help'
      Print a summary of the command line options and exit.
 
 `-i'
 `--include-deps'
      Include all automatically generated dependency information (
      Dependencies) in the generated `Makefile.in'.  This is generally
      done when making a distribution; see  Dist.
 
 `--generate-deps'
      Generate a file concatenating all automatically generated
      dependency information ( Dependencies) into one file,
      `.dep_segment'.  This is generally done when making a
      distribution; see  Dist.  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.
 
 `--no-force'
      Ordinarily `automake' creates all `Makefile.in's mentioned in
      `configure.in'.  This option causes it to only update those
      `Makefile.in's which are out of date with respect to one of their
      dependents.
 
 `-o DIR'
 `--output-dir=DIR'
      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.
 
 `--srcdir-name=DIR'
      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.
 
 `-v'
 `--verbose'
      Cause Automake to print information about which files are being
      read or created.
 
 `--version'
      Print the version number of Automake and exit.
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