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5.1 Configuration requirements

The simplest way to meet the basic Automake requirements is to use the macro AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE (FIXME: xref). But if you prefer, you can do the required steps by hand:

Here are the other macros which Automake requires but which are not run by AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE:

AC_OUTPUT

Automake uses this to determine which files to create. Listed files named Makefile are treated as Makefiles. Other listed files are treated differently. Currently the only difference is that a Makefile is removed by make distclean, while other files are removed by make clean.


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