| This is Automake, an experimental 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. | |
| Mail suggestions and bug reports to tromey@cygnus.com. |