| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Variable assignment lines in Makefile.am pull in defaults from various |
| little *.am files. |
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| To use Automake, replace your Makefile.in files with Makefile.am |
| files. Read the documentation to see what to do. |
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| 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. |
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| The mailing list automake@gnu.org is for discussion of |
| Automake, Autoconf, and other configuration/portability tools (e.g., |
| libtool). Write to automake-request@gnu.org if you want to |
| join. |
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| Automake has a page on the web. See: |
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| http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/ |
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| Mail suggestions and bug reports to bug-automake@gnu.org. |
