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| 1 | This is Automake, a Makefile generator.  It was inspired by the 4.4BSD | 
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| 2 | make and include files, but aims to be portable and to conform to the | 
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| 3 | GNU standards for Makefile variables and targets. | 
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| 5 | Automake is a Perl script.  The input files are called Makefile.am. | 
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| 6 | The output files are called Makefile.in; they are intended for use | 
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| 7 | with Autoconf.  Automake requires certain things to be done in your | 
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| 8 | configure.in. | 
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| 9 |  | 
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| 10 | Variable assignment lines in Makefile.am pull in defaults from various | 
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| 11 | little *.am files. | 
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| 12 |  | 
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| 13 | To use Automake, replace your Makefile.in files with Makefile.am | 
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| 14 | files.  Read the documentation to see what to do. | 
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| 15 |  | 
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| 16 | This package also includes the "aclocal" program.  aclocal is a | 
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| 17 | program to generate an `aclocal.m4' based on the contents of | 
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| 18 | `configure.in'.  It is useful as an extensible, maintainable mechanism | 
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| 19 | for augmenting autoconf.  It is intended that other package authors | 
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| 20 | will write m4 macros which can be automatically used by aclocal. | 
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| 21 |  | 
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| 22 | The mailing list automake@gnu.org is for discussion of | 
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| 23 | Automake, Autoconf, and other configuration/portability tools (e.g., | 
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| 24 | libtool).  Write to automake-request@gnu.org if you want to | 
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| 25 | join. | 
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| 26 |  | 
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| 27 | Automake has a page on the web.  See: | 
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| 29 | http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/ | 
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| 31 | Mail suggestions and bug reports to bug-automake@gnu.org. | 
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