AUTOUPDATE(E)                                       AUTOUPDATE(E)



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

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

DESCRIPTION
       The autoupdate program updates a  configure.in  file  that
       calls  Autoconf  macros by their old names to use the cur-
       rent 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 argu-
       ments, 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
       autoconf(f),  autoheader(r),  autoreconf(f),  autoscan(n),
       ifnames(s)

AUTHORS
       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 man-
       page written by Ben Pfaff  <pfaffben@debian.org>  for  the
       Debian GNU/Linux autoconf package.



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