X-Git-Url: http://erislabs.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=m4%2FREADME;h=3a38ae8b95cd57e3add43476396bdf857591a8f1;hb=b2227080c74868dffbca68f4e88dec0906a03d96;hp=911e25c2d0ce9088bfa89d3deb3e327cef30c97a;hpb=888115468aead330b2e32598703e62a4720b16a6;p=gnulib.git diff --git a/m4/README b/m4/README index 911e25c2d..3a38ae8b9 100644 --- a/m4/README +++ b/m4/README @@ -1,9 +1,10 @@ +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. \ No newline at end of file +The Makefile.am file in this directory is automatically generated +from the template file, Makefile.am.in.