8.2.2 Customizing autom4te

One can customize autom4te via `~/.autom4te.cfg' (i.e., as found in the user home directory), and `./.autom4te.cfg' (i.e., as found in the directory from which autom4te is run). The order is first reading `autom4te.cfg', then `~/.autom4te.cfg', then `./.autom4te.cfg', and finally the command line arguments.

In these text files, comments are introduced with #, and empty lines are ignored. Customization is performed on a per-language basis, wrapped in between a `begin-language: "language"', `end-language: "language"' pair.

Customizing a language stands for appending options (see section 8.2.1 Invoking autom4te) to the current definition of the language. Options, and more generally arguments, are introduced by `args: arguments'. You may use the traditional shell syntax to quote the arguments.

As an example, to disable Autoconf caches (`autom4te.cache') globally, include the following lines in `~/.autom4te.cfg':

@verbatim ## ------------------ ## ## User Preferences. ## ## ------------------ ##

begin-language: "Autoconf" args: --no-cache end-language: "Autoconf"