X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=fdf25fa0c7fa4a6db259912ba0339a763c7f4843;hb=43831406be5beb7d83c7798db9c96fd164b0c51d;hp=0396ff3b75348bc2f7481dd4cf9cda31c53726c3;hpb=641a5a4bf09cdc07acf1539caa86f6197feb032e;p=platform%2Fupstream%2Fautomake.git diff --git a/README b/README index 0396ff3..fdf25fa 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,29 +1,27 @@ -This is Automake, a Makefile generator. It was inspired by the 4.4BSD -make and include files, but aims to be portable and to conform to the -GNU Coding Standards for Makefile variables and targets. +This is Automake, a Makefile generator. It aims to be portable and +to conform to the GNU Coding Standards for Makefile variables and +targets. + +See the INSTALL file for detailed information about how to configure +and install Automake. Automake is a Perl script. The input files are called Makefile.am. The output files are called Makefile.in; they are intended for use with Autoconf. Automake requires certain things to be done in your configure.ac. -Variable assignment lines in Makefile.am pull in defaults from various -little *.am files. - -To use Automake, replace your Makefile.in files with Makefile.am -files. Read the documentation to see what to do. - -This package also includes the "aclocal" program. aclocal is a -program to generate an `aclocal.m4' based on the contents of -`configure.ac'. It is useful as an extensible, maintainable mechanism -for augmenting autoconf. It is intended that other package authors -will write m4 macros which can be automatically used by aclocal. +Automake comes with extensive documentation; please refer to it for +more details about its purpose, features, and usage patterns. -Automake has a test suite. Use +This package also includes the "aclocal" program, whose purpose is +to generate an 'aclocal.m4' based on the contents of 'configure.ac'. +It is useful as an extensible, maintainable mechanism for augmenting +autoconf. It is intended that other package authors will write m4 +macros which can be automatically used by aclocal. The documentation +for aclocal is currently found in the Automake manual. - make check - -to run it. For more information, see the file tests/README. +Automake has a test suite. Use "make check" to run it. For more +information, see the file t/README. Automake has a page on the web. See: @@ -49,6 +47,9 @@ New releases are announced to autotools-announce@gnu.org. If you want to be informed, subscribe to that list by following the instructions at . +For any copyright year range specified as YYYY-ZZZZ in this package, +that the range specifies every single year in that closed interval. + ----- Copyright (C) 1994-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.