-To use AutoMake, replace your Makefile.in files with Makefile.am
-files. Since there's no documentation, look at the automake script
-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 and find and
-indent (unreleased versions).
-
-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>
+To use Automake, replace your Makefile.in files with Makefile.am
+files. Read the documentation to see what to do. The only currently
+valid example is in samples/cpio; the stuff in samples/old is
+obsolete.