GNU Automake is a tool for automatically generating Makefile.in files compliant with the GNU Coding Standards
autoscan
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Examine source files in the directory tree rooted at SRCDIR, or the current directory if none is given
Search the source files for common portability problems, check for incompleteness of 'configure.ac', and create a file 'configure.scan' which is a preliminary 'configure.ac' for that package