NAME    [Toc]    [Back]

       autoupdate - updates an old configure.in file to version 2

SYNOPSIS    [Toc]    [Back]

       autoupdate  [  --help  |  -h  ] [ --version | -V ] [ --verbose | -v ] [
       --debug | -d ] [ --autoconf-dir=dir | -A dir ] [  --localdir=dir  |  -l
       dir ]

DESCRIPTION    [Toc]    [Back]

       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.

       autoupdate accepts the following options:

       --help

       -h     Print a summary of the command line options and exit.

       --version

       -V     Print the version number of Autoconf and exit.

       --verbose

       -v     Report processing steps.

       --debug

       -d     Don't remove the temporary files.

       --autoconf-dir=dir

       -A 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.

       --localdir=dir

       -l dir Look for the package file aclocal.m4 in directory dir instead of
	      in the current directory.

SEE ALSO    [Toc]    [Back]

       autoconf(1), autoheader(1), autoreconf(1), autoscan(1), ifnames(1)

AUTHORS    [Toc]    [Back]

       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   <pfaff[email protected]> for the Debian GNU/Linux autoconf package.



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