AUTOSCAN(1) User Commands AUTOSCAN(1)

autoscan - Generate a preliminary configure.ac

autoscan [OPTION]... [SRCDIR]

Examine source files in the directory tree rooted at SRCDIR, or the current directory if none is given. Search the source files for common portability problems, check for incompleteness of 'configure.ac', and create a file 'configure.scan' which is a preliminary 'configure.ac' for that package.

print this help, then exit
print version number, then exit
verbosely report processing
don't remove temporary files

prepend directory DIR to search path
append directory DIR to search path

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