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20 The effect of --cygnus

Cygnus Solutions has slightly different rules for how a Makefile.in is to be constructed. Passing ‘--cygnus’ to automake will cause any generated Makefile.in to comply with Cygnus rules.

Here are the precise effects of ‘--cygnus’:

GNU maintainers are advised to use ‘gnu’ strictness in preference to the special Cygnus mode.