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  1. <sect2>
  2. <title>Contents</title>
  3. <para>The Automake package contains the aclocal and automake programs</para>
  4. </sect2>
  5. <sect2><title>Description</title>
  6. <sect3><title>aclocal</title>
  7. <para>Automake includes a number of Autoconf macros which can be used in
  8. packages; some of them are actually required by Automake in certain
  9. situations. These macros must be defined in the aclocal.m4-file;
  10. otherwise they will not be seen by autoconf.</para>
  11. <para>The aclocal program will automatically generate aclocal.m4 files
  12. based on the contents of configure.in. This provides a convenient
  13. way to get Automake-provided macros, without having to search around.
  14. Also, the aclocal mechanism is extensible for use
  15. by other packages.</para></sect3>
  16. <sect3><title>automake</title>
  17. <para>To create all the Makefile.in's for a package, run the automake
  18. program in the top level directory, with no arguments. automake will
  19. automatically find each appropriate Makefile.am (by scanning
  20. configure.in) and generate the corresponding Makefile.in.</para></sect3>
  21. </sect2>