| This is Automake, a Makefile generator. It was inspired by the 4.4BSD | |
| make and include files, but aims to be portable and to conform to the | |
| GNU standards for Makefile variables and targets. | |
| Automake is a Perl script. The input files are called Makefile.am. | |
| The output files are called Makefile.in; they are intended for use | |
| with Autoconf. Automake requires certain things to be done in your | |
| configure.in. | |
| Variable assignment lines in Makefile.am pull in defaults from various | |
| little *.am files. | |
| To use Automake, replace your Makefile.in files with Makefile.am | |
| files. Read the documentation to see what to do. | |
| This package also includes the "aclocal" program. aclocal is a | |
| program to generate an `aclocal.m4' based on the contents of | |
| `configure.in'. It is useful as an extensible, maintainable mechanism | |
| for augmenting autoconf. It is intended that other package authors | |
| will write m4 macros which can be automatically used by aclocal. | |
| The mailing list automake@gnu.ai.mit.edu is for discussion of | |
| Automake, Autoconf, and other configuration/portability tools (e.g., | |
| libtool). Write to automake-request@gnu.ai.mit.edu if you want to | |
| join. | |
| Mail suggestions and bug reports to automake-bugs@gnu.ai.mit.edu. |