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NAME
     autoconf - Generate configuration scripts

SYNOPSIS
     autoconf2.69 [OPTION]... [TEMPLATE-FILE]

DESCRIPTION
     Generate  a configuration script from a TEMPLATE-FILE if given, or `config-
     ure.ac' if present, or else `configure.in'.  Output is sent to the standard
     output if TEMPLATE-FILE is given, else into `configure'.

   Operation modes:
     -h, --help
	    print this help, then exit

     -V, --version
	    print version number, then exit

     -v, --verbose
	    verbosely report processing

     -d, --debug
	    don't remove temporary files

     -f, --force
	    consider all files obsolete

     -o, --output=FILE
	    save output in FILE (stdout is the default)

     -W, --warnings=CATEGORY
	    report the warnings falling in CATEGORY [syntax]

   Warning categories include:
     `cross'
	    cross compilation issues

     `obsolete'
	    obsolete constructs

     `syntax'
	    dubious syntactic constructs

     `all'  all the warnings

     `no-CATEGORY'
	    turn off the warnings on CATEGORY

     `none'
	    turn off all the warnings

     `error'
	    warnings are error

     The environment variables `M4' and `WARNINGS' are honored.

   Library directories:
     -B, --prepend-include=DIR
	    prepend directory DIR to search path

     -I, --include=DIR
	    append directory DIR to search path

   Tracing:
     -t, --trace=MACRO[:FORMAT]
	    report the list of calls to MACRO

     -i, --initialization
	    also trace Autoconf's initialization process

     In tracing mode, no configuration script is created.   FORMAT  defaults  to
     `$f:$l:$n:$%'; see `autom4te --help' for information about FORMAT.

AUTHOR
     Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.

REPORTING BUGS
     Report bugs to <bug-autoconf@gnu.org>.
     GNU Autoconf home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/>.
     General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>.

COPYRIGHT
     Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.	License GPLv3+/Autoconf:
     GNU    GPL   version   3	or   later   <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>,
     <http://gnu.org/licenses/exceptions.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
     autoconf2.69(1),  automake(1),  autoreconf2.69(1), autoupdate2.69(1), auto-
     header2.69(1), autoscan2.69(1), config.guess2.69(1), config.sub2.69(1), if-
     names2.69(1), libtool(1).

     The full documentation for autoconf2.69 is maintained as a Texinfo  manual.
     If  the info and autoconf2.69 programs are properly installed at your site,
     the command

	    info autoconf2.69

     should give you access to the complete manual.

GNU Autoconf 2.68b		   March 2012			     AUTOCONF(1)
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