autoscan(1)

autoscan1

Generate a preliminary configure.ac

Usage

autoscan [OPTION] ... [SRCDIR]

Overview

Examine source files in the directory tree rooted at SRCDIR, or the current directory if none is given. Search the source files for common portability problems, check for incompleteness of 'configure.ac', and create a file 'configure.scan' which is a preliminary 'configure.ac' for that package.

-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

Library directories:

-B, --prepend-include=DIR

prepend directory DIR to search path

-I, --include=DIR

append directory DIR to search path

Releases

16 releases since Debian 2.0 (Hamm); the text changed 10 times.

  1. 2.0–2.2
  2. 3.0
  3. 3.1
  4. 4.0–7
  5. 8
  6. 9
  7. 10
  8. 11
  9. 12
  10. 13
  11. Arch

--debug since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); --include since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); --prepend-include since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -B since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -I since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -V since Debian 3.0 (Woody); -d since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -v since Debian 3.0 (Woody).

--autoconf-dir until Debian 3.0 (Woody); --macrodir until Debian 2.2 (Potato); -m until Debian 2.2 (Potato).

Author

Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.

Reporting bugs

Report bugs to ⟨[email protected]⟩, or via Savannah: ⟨https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?group=autoconf⟩.

From autoconf 2.73-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.