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Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition
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Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition

by Ellen Siever, Aaron Weber, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins
July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
944 pages
158h 24m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 3: Linux Commands
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Save output to file.
-v, --verbose
Verbosely print information about the progress of autoheader.
-B dir, --prepend-include=dir
Prepend directory dir to the search path.
-I dir, --include=dir
Append directory dir to the search path.
-V, --version
Print version number, then exit.
-W category, --warnings=category
Print any warnings related to category. Accepted categories are:
obsolete
Obsolete constructs.
all
All warnings.
no-category
Turn off warnings for category.
none
Turn off all warnings.
error
Treat warnings as errors.
automake
automake [options] [template_file]
GNU automake tool. Create GNU standards-compliant Makefile.in
files from Makefile.am template files and can be used to ensure that
projects contain all the files and install options required to be stan-
dards-compliant. Note that Versions 1.4 and 1.6 differ enough that
many distributions include an automake14 package for backward
compatibility.
Options
-a, --add-missing
Add any missing files that automake requires to the directory
by creating symbolic links to automake’s default versions.
-c, --copy
Used with the -a option. Copy missing files instead of creating
symbolic links.
--cygnus
Specifies project has a Cygnus-style source tree.
-f, --force-missing
Used with the -a option. Replace required ...
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