---
name: "autoconf2.13"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "autoconf2.13"
version: "2.13-69"
release: "Debian 12 (Bookworm)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/autoconf2.13"
---

# autoconf2.13(1)

creates scripts to configure source code packages using templates

## NAME

autoconf2.13 - creates scripts to configure source code packages using templates

## SYNOPSIS

**autoconf2.13** \[ **--help** \| **-h** \] \[ **--localdir=dir** \| **-l dir** \] \[ **--macrodir=dir** \| **-m dir** \] \[ **--version** \]

## DESCRIPTION

To create  **configure** from  **configure.in**, run the  **autoconf2.13** program with no arguments.   **autoconf2.13** processes  **configure.in** with the  **m4** macro processor, using the Autoconf macros.  If you give **autoconf2.13** an argument, it reads that file instead of  **configure.in** and writes the configuration script to the standard output instead of to  **configure**. If you give  **autoconf2.13** the argument  **-**, it reads the standard input instead of  **configure.in** and writes the configuration script on the standard output.

The Autoconf macros are defined in several files.  Some of the files are distributed with Autoconf;  **autoconf2.13** reads them first.  Then it looks for the optional file  **acsite.m4** in the directory that contains the distributed Autoconf macro files, and for the optional file **aclocal.m4** in the current directory.  Those files can contain your site's or the package's own Autoconf macro definitions.  If a macro is defined in more than one of the files that  **autoconf2.13** reads, the last definition it reads overrides the earlier ones.

**autoconf2.13** accepts the following options:

- **--help**

  - **-h**

  Print a summary of the command line options and exit.

- **--localdir=DIR**

  - **-l DIR**

  Look for the package file  **aclocal.m4** in directory DIR instead of in the current directory.

- **--macrodir=DIR**

  - **-m DIR**

  Look for the installed macro files in directory DIR.  You can also set the  **AC\_MACRODIR** environment variable to a directory; this option overrides the environment variable.

- **--version**

  Print the version number of Autoconf and exit.

## SEE ALSO

[**autoheader2.13**(1)](/autoheader2.13/1.md), [**autoreconf2.13**(1)](/autoreconf2.13/1.md), [**autoscan2.13**(1)](/autoscan2.13/1.md), [**autoupdate2.13**(1)](/autoupdate2.13/1.md), [**ifnames2.13**(1)](/ifnames2.13/1.md)

## AUTHORS

David MacKenzie, with help from Franc,ois Pinard, Karl Berry, Richard Pixley, Ian Lance Taylor, Roland McGrath, Noah Friedman, David D. Zuhn, and many others.  This manpage written by Ben Pfaff \<pfaffben@debian.org\> for the Debian GNU/Linux **autoconf2.13** package.