| 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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| 4 |  | 
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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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| 28 |  | 
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| 29 | http://sources.redhat.com/automake/ | 
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| 30 |  | 
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| 31 | Mail suggestions and bug reports to bug-automake@gnu.org. | 
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| 32 |  | 
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| 33 | ----- | 
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| 34 |  | 
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| 35 | Copyright 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001 Free Software Foundation, | 
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| 36 | Inc. | 
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| 37 |  | 
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| 38 | This file is part of GNU Automake. | 
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| 39 |  | 
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| 40 | GNU Automake is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify | 
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| 41 | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by | 
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| 42 | the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) | 
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| 43 | any later version. | 
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| 44 |  | 
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| 45 | GNU Automake is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | 
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| 46 | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | 
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| 47 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the | 
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| 48 | GNU General Public License for more details. | 
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| 49 |  | 
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| 50 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | 
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| 51 | along with autoconf; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to | 
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| 52 | the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, | 
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| 53 | Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. | 
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