Automake generates rules to automatically rebuild Makefile
s,
configure
, and other derived files like Makefile.in
.
If you are using AM_MAINTAINER_MODE
in configure.in
, then
these automatic rebuilding rules are only enabled in maintainer mode.
Sometimes you need to run aclocal
with an argument like -I
to tell it where to find .m4
files. Since sometimes make
will automatically run aclocal
, you need a way to specify these
arguments. You can do this by defining ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS
; this
holds arguments which are passed verbatim to aclocal
. This variable
is only useful in the top-level Makefile.am
.