+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.
The Makefile.am file in this directory is automatically generated
-from the template file, Makefile.am.in. The generation will fail
-if you don't have all the right tools.
+from the template file, Makefile.am.in.