autoupdate(1)

autoupdate1

Update a configure.ac to a newer autoconf

Usage

autoupdate [OPTION] ... [TEMPLATE-FILE] ...

Overview

Update each TEMPLATE-FILE if given, or 'configure.ac' if present, or else 'configure.in', to the syntax of the current version of Autoconf. The original files are backed up.

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

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

--autoconf-dir until Debian 3.0 (Woody); --localdir 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.