1 This is Automake, a Makefile generator. It was inspired by the 4.4BSD
2 make and include files, but aims to be portable and to conform to the
3 GNU Coding Standards for Makefile variables and targets.
5 Automake is a Perl script. The input files are called Makefile.am.
6 The output files are called Makefile.in; they are intended for use
7 with Autoconf. Automake requires certain things to be done in your
10 Variable assignment lines in Makefile.am pull in defaults from various
13 To use Automake, replace your Makefile.in files with Makefile.am
14 files. Read the documentation to see what to do.
16 This package also includes the "aclocal" program. aclocal is a
17 program to generate an `aclocal.m4' based on the contents of
18 `configure.ac'. It is useful as an extensible, maintainable mechanism
19 for augmenting autoconf. It is intended that other package authors
20 will write m4 macros which can be automatically used by aclocal.
22 Automake has a test suite. Use
26 to run it. Capture its output in case of failing tests. For more
27 information, please see the file tests/README.
29 Automake has a page on the web. See:
31 http://sources.redhat.com/automake/
33 The mailing list automake@gnu.org is for discussion of Automake and
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38 Mail suggestions and bug reports to bug-automake@gnu.org, patches
39 to automake-patches@gnu.org.
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