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+This directory contains test configuration files, currently always '.dfa' files
+intended to be used in the build by setting the make macro DFA_XTRA to the name
+of the file.
+
+These files are used in release validation of the 'configure' builds of libpng
+by building 'make check', or 'make all-am' for cross-builds, with each .dfa
+file.
+
+The files in this directory may change between minor releases, however
+contributions describing specific builds of libpng are welcomed.  There is no
+guarantee that libpng will continue to build with such configurations; support
+for given configurations can be, and has been, dropped between successive minor
+releases.  However if a .dfa file describing a configuration is not in this
+directory it is very unlikely that it will be tested before a minor release!
+
+You can use these .dfa files as the basis of new configurations.  Files in this
+directory should not have any use restrictions or restrictive licenses.
+
+This directory is not included in the .zip and .7z distributions, which do
+not contain 'configure' scripts.
+
+DOCUMENTATION
+=============
+
+Examples:
+   ${srcdir}/pngusr.dfa
+   ${srcdir}/contrib/pngminim/*/pngusr.dfa
+
+Documentation of the options:
+   ${srcdir}/scripts/pnglibconf.dfa
+
+Documentation of the file format:
+   ${srcdir}/scripts/options.awk
+
+FILE NAMING
+===========
+
+File names in this directory may NOT contain any of the five characters:
+
+   - , + * ?
+
+Neither may they contain any space character.
+
+While other characters may be used it is strongly suggested that file names be
+limited to lower case Latiin alphabetic characters (a-z), digits (0-9) and, if
+necessary the underscore (_) character.  File names should be about 8 characters
+long (excluding the .dfa extension).  Submitted .dfa files should have names
+between 7 and 16 characters long, shorter names (6 characters or less) are
+reserved for standard tests.