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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ 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 shell script. The input files are called Makefile.am. -The output files are called Makefile.in; they are suitable for use +The output files are called Makefile.in; they are intended for use with Autoconf. Variable assignment lines in Makefile.am pull in defaults from various @@ -15,5 +15,13 @@ and the examples provided for GNU m4 1.3 and fileutils 3.9 (along with patches you need to apply to those packages) and time 1.6. AutoMake is just a prototype at this point -- expect omissions and bugs. +It uses only the programs that the GNU coding standards allow in +configure scripts, because I wrote it keeping in mind the possibility +of it becoming an Autoconf macro, so it would run at configure-time. +That would slow configuration down a bit, but allow users to modify +the Makefile.am without needing to fetch the AutoMake package. And, +the Makefile.in files wouldn't need to be distributed. But all of +AutoMake would. So I might reimplement AutoMake in Perl, m4, or some +other more appropriate language. - David MacKenzie <djm@gnu.ai.mit.edu> |