autoconf: Customizing autom4te

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1 8.2.2 Customizing `autom4te'
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1 One can customize `autom4te' via `~/.autom4te.cfg' (i.e., as found in
1 the user home directory), and `./.autom4te.cfg' (i.e., as found in the
1 directory from which `autom4te' is run).  The order is first reading
1 `autom4te.cfg', then `~/.autom4te.cfg', then `./.autom4te.cfg', and
1 finally the command line arguments.
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1    In these text files, comments are introduced with `#', and empty
1 lines are ignored.  Customization is performed on a per-language basis,
1 wrapped in between a `begin-language: "LANGUAGE"', `end-language:
1 "LANGUAGE"' pair.
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11    Customizing a language stands for appending options (⇒autom4te
 Invocation) to the current definition of the language.  Options, and
1 more generally arguments, are introduced by `args: ARGUMENTS'.  You may
1 use the traditional shell syntax to quote the ARGUMENTS.
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1    As an example, to disable Autoconf caches (`autom4te.cache')
1 globally, include the following lines in `~/.autom4te.cfg':
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1 ## ------------------ ##
1 ## User Preferences.  ##
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1 begin-language: "Autoconf-without-aclocal-m4"
1 args: --no-cache
1 end-language: "Autoconf-without-aclocal-m4"
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