File: autoconf.info, Node: Configuration Files, Next: Makefile Substitutions, Prev: Configuration Actions, Up: Setup 4.7 Creating Configuration Files ================================ Be sure to read the previous section, *note Configuration Actions::. -- Macro: AC_CONFIG_FILES (FILE..., [CMDS], [INIT-CMDS]) Make ‘AC_OUTPUT’ create each ‘FILE’ by copying an input file (by default ‘FILE.in’), substituting the output variable values. This macro is one of the instantiating macros; see *note Configuration Actions::. *Note Makefile Substitutions::, for more information on using output variables. *Note Setting Output Variables::, for more information on creating them. This macro creates the directory that the file is in if it doesn't exist. Usually, makefiles are created this way, but other files, such as ‘.gdbinit’, can be specified as well. Typical calls to ‘AC_CONFIG_FILES’ look like this: AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile src/Makefile man/Makefile X/Imakefile]) AC_CONFIG_FILES([autoconf], [chmod +x autoconf]) You can override an input file name by appending to FILE a colon-separated list of input files. Examples: AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile:boiler/top.mk:boiler/bot.mk] [lib/Makefile:boiler/lib.mk]) Doing this allows you to keep your file names acceptable to DOS variants, or to prepend and/or append boilerplate to the file. The FILE names should not contain shell metacharacters. *Note Special Chars in Variables::.