NAME

       autoconf2.13 - creates scripts to configure source code packages using templates

SYNOPSIS

       autoconf2.13 [ --help | -h ] [ --localdir=dir | -l dir ] [ --macrodir=dir | -m dir ] [ --version ]

DESCRIPTION

       To  create  configure  from  configure.in,  run the autoconf2.13 program with no arguments.  autoconf2.13
       processes configure.in with the m4 macro processor, using the Autoconf macros.  If you give  autoconf2.13
       an  argument,  it  reads  that  file  instead  of configure.in and writes the configuration script to the
       standard output instead of to configure.  If you give autoconf2.13 the argument -, it reads the  standard
       input instead of configure.in and writes the configuration script on the standard output.

       The  Autoconf  macros  are  defined  in  several files.  Some of the files are distributed with Autoconf;
       autoconf2.13 reads them first.  Then it looks for the optional  file  acsite.m4  in  the  directory  that
       contains  the  distributed  Autoconf  macro  files,  and  for the optional file aclocal.m4 in the current
       directory.  Those files can contain your site's or the package's own Autoconf macro  definitions.   If  a
       macro  is  defined  in  more  than one of the files that autoconf2.13 reads, the last definition it reads
       overrides the earlier ones.

       autoconf2.13 accepts the following options:

       --help

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

       --localdir=DIR

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

       --macrodir=DIR

       -m 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.

       --version
              Print the version number of Autoconf and exit.

SEE ALSO

       autoheader2.13(1), autoreconf2.13(1), autoscan2.13(1), autoupdate2.13(1), ifnames2.13(1)

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  manpage  written  by  Ben   Pfaff
       <pfaffben@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux autoconf2.13 package.

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