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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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