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13 Changing Automake’s Behavior

Various features of Automake can be controlled by options in the Makefile.am. Such options are listed in a special variable named AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS. Currently understood options are:

gnits

gnu

foreign

The same as the corresponding ‘--strictness’ option.

no-installman

The generated Makefile.in will not cause man pages to be installed by default. However, an install-man target will still be available for optional installation.

ansi2knr

Turn on automatic de-ANSI-fication.

dist-shar

Generate a dist-shar target as well as the ordinary dist target.

dist-zip

Generate a dist-zip target as well as the ordinary dist target.

no-dependencies

This is similar to using ‘--include-deps’ on the command line, but is useful for those situations where you don’t have the necessary bits to make automatic dependency tracking work See Automatic dependency tracking. In this case the effect is to effectively disable automatic dependency tracking.

version

A version number (eg ‘0.30’) can be specified. If Automake is not newer than the version specified, creation of the Makefile.in will be suppressed.

Unrecognized options are diagnosed by automake.