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From: "Andris Pavenis" <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
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Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 17:23:27 +0300
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Subject: ANNOUNCE: automake-1.3  uploaded
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This is to announce that the DJGPP port of GNU Automake version 1.3 is now available from the 
SimTel.NET mirrors:

  ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/amake13b.zip
  ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/amake13s.zip

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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 standards for Makefile variables and targets.

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.in.

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.in'.  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.

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This is DJGPP port of GNU Automake-1.3

I needed it for one package. So I built it from sources.

You'll need PERL and M4 (and maybe something else) to use
automake. I think it should also run without LFN support
but You'll may be not able to build it from sources (and/or)
run tests without LFN support.

Building automake from sources
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You need bash,sed,awk,perl,fileutils and possibly other packages
installed. All commands mentioned below should be entered from
bash (don't use configure and make directly!!!):

  ./djconfig.sh
	configures sources to be built

  ./djmake.sh
	makes automake and aclocal

  ./djmake.sh check	
	checkes newly build automake (I had 2 failures out of 153 
        tests: installsh.test and symlink.test)

  ./djfix.sh
	patches automake and aclocal to replace exact location of
	DJGPP with definition through use of environement variable
	$DJDIR

  ./djmake.sh install
	installs automake

Happy hacking

Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>