DH_AUTORECONF(1)

DH_AUTORECONF(1)                 dh-autoreconf                DH_AUTORECONF(1)

NAME
       dh_autoreconf - Call autoreconf -f -i and keep track of the changed
       files.

SYNOPSIS
       dh_autoreconf [debhelper options] [-Xitem] [--mode=mode]
       [program -- params]

DESCRIPTION
       dh_autoreconf is responsible for calling autoreconf and creating the
       files debian/autoreconf.before and debian/autoreconf.after which
       contain checksums of all files before/after the build. It is
       complemented by dh_autoreconf_clean which creates a list of all changed
       and added files and removes them.

       Please note that dh_autoreconf can only be run once. Thus, if you need
       to run multiple commands, use a script or similar. An example is given
       in dh-autoreconf(7).

FILES
       debian/autoreconf
           This file can contain a list of directories. If present,
           dh_autoreconf will only scan the given directories for changes. If
           no special command is given to dh_autoreconf, it will also forward
           the directory list to autoreconf which causes it to be run only on
           those sub directories.

OPTIONS
       -Xitem --exclude=item
           Exclude files that contain "item" anywhere in their filename from
           being checked for changes. This means that those files won't be
           deleted by "dh_autoreconf_clean" even if there are changes. You may
           use this option multiple times to build up a list of things to
           exclude.

           Starting with version 3, the directories of common version control
           systems such as cvs, git, hg, svn, and bzr are excluded
           automatically.

       --mode=mode
           Change the way in which modifications to files are detected. The
           default mode is md5 for using MD5 checksums, but there is also
           timesize for using the time of the last modification and the file
           size.

       --as-needed
           Enable support for -Wl,--as-needed in all ltmain.sh files identical
           to the one of the libtool package. This only works in the MD5 mode
           (the default one). The changes are reverted in dh_autoreconf_clean.
           You should not prevent LIBTOOLIZE from running with this, as it
           only works correctly with libtoolize running.

       -Ddir --sourcedirectory=dir
           Run everything in the source directory. Supported only in debhelper
           compat level 10 for backwards compatibility.

       program -- params
           Run the program given by program with the arguments given by params
           instead of autoreconf -f -i. If you need to run multiple commands,
           put them in a script and pass the script instead (or add a target
           to debian/rules).

ENVIRONMENT
       For each tool executed by autoreconf(1), one can export a variable with
       the uppercase name of the tool to the specific program which shall be
       run, including true to prevent the tool in question from being run. The
       following example shows the beginning of a debian/rules for a package
       where automake 1.11 shall be run instead of the default automake
       version and libtoolize shall not be run:

           #!/usr/bin/make -f
           export AUTOMAKE = automake-1.11
           export LIBTOOLIZE = true

SEE ALSO
       debhelper(7), dh_autoreconf_clean(1), dh-autoreconf(7)

AUTHOR
       Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>

dh-autoreconf v19                 2018-05-19                  DH_AUTORECONF(1)