automake-rs-cli

The automake and aclocal command-line front-ends of automake-rs — a clean-room, forensic-parity reimplementation of GNU Automake in Rust.

This crate provides two binaries that drive the automake-rs-core engine:

automake — reads Makefile.am (auto-discovering configure.ac) and writes Makefile.in.
aclocal — scans configure.ac and assembles aclocal.m4 from the macro search path.

It contains no GNU Automake source; behavior is reconstructed against a pinned GNU Automake 1.18.1 oracle.

Install

cargo install automake-rs   # installs automake, aclocal, and automake-rs

Usage

# generate Makefile.in from Makefile.am
automake --foreign --add-missing --copy

# verbose, treat warnings as errors
automake -v -W all -W error Makefile.am

# discover macros and assemble aclocal.m4, installing third-party macros into m4/
aclocal --install -I m4

# preview what aclocal would change, without writing
aclocal --diff -I m4

Compatibility

automake honors the strictness flavors (--foreign / --gnu / --gnits), --add-missing/--copy/--force-missing, --verbose, --no-force, -I, dependency-tracking toggles, -W/--warnings, and --print-libdir. --version is byte-exact with the admitted oracle.
aclocal honors -I, --install, --dry-run, --force, --diff, --output, --print-ac-dir, --aclocal-path, --automake-acdir, --system-acdir, and -W/--warnings.
The environment variables AUTOMAKE, ACLOCAL, AUTOCONF, AUTOM4TE, M4, and MAKE are recognized.

Each of these surfaces is backed by a sealed parity court (AM.CLI.1, AM.CLI.ACLOCAL.1) with a signed receipt.

Part of automake-rs

The engine lives in automake-rs-core; the oracle-court methodology and proof receipts are in the automake-rs workspace.

License