+The files in this directory are shared between the fileutils, sh-utils,
+and textutils packages.
+
These files are used by a program called aclocal (part of the GNU automake
package). aclocal uses these files to create aclocal.m4 which is in turn
-used by autoconf to create the configure script at the the top level in
+used by autoconf to create the configure script at the top level in
this distribution.
-Some of these files are copies of the ones in the automake-1.1l
-distribution. Others are specific to this package.
-Eventually, I expect that aclocal will evolve so that this directory
-can contain only the .m4 files specific to this package.
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+The Makefile.am file in this directory is automatically generated
+from the template file, Makefile.am.in.