C.1 aclocal
The aclocal
program creates the file ‘aclocal.m4’ by
combining stock installed macros, user defined macros and the contents
of ‘acinclude.m4’ to define all of the macros required by
‘configure.in’ in a single file. aclocal
was created as
a fix for some missing functionality in Autoconf, and as such we
consider it a wart. In due course aclocal
itself will
disappear, and Autoconf will perform the same function unaided.
| user input files optional input process output files
================ ============== ======= ============
acinclude.m4 - - - - -.
V
.-------,
configure.in ------------------------>|aclocal|
{user macro files} ->| |------> aclocal.m4
`-------'
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