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    The GNU configure and build system requires several support files to
 be included with your distribution.  You do not normally need to concern
 yourself with these.  If you are using the Cygnus tree, most are already
 present.  Otherwise, they will be installed with your source by
 `automake' (with the `--add-missing' option) and `libtoolize'.
 
    You don't have to put the support files in the top level directory.
 You can put them in a subdirectory, and use the `AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR'
 macro in `configure.in' to tell `automake' and the `configure' script
 where they are.
 
    In this section, I describe the support files, so that you can know
 what they are and why they are there.
 
 `ABOUT-NLS'
      Added by automake if you are using gettext.  This is a
      documentation file about the gettext project.
 
 `ansi2knr.c'
      Used by an automake generated `Makefile' if you put `ansi2knr' in
      `AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS' in `Makefile.am'.  This permits compiling ANSI
      C code with a K&R C compiler.
 
 `ansi2knr.1'
      The man page which goes with `ansi2knr.c'.
 
 `config.guess'
      A shell script which determines the configuration name for the
      system on which it is run.
 
 `config.sub'
      A shell script which canonicalizes a configuration name entered by
      a user.
 
 `elisp-comp'
      Used to compile Emacs LISP files.
 
 `install-sh'
      A shell script which installs a program.  This is used if the
      configure script can not find an install binary.
 
 `ltconfig'
      Used by libtool.  This is a shell script which configures libtool
      for the particular system on which it is used.
 
 `ltmain.sh'
      Used by libtool.  This is the actual libtool script which is used,
      after it is configured by `ltconfig' to build a library.
 
 `mdate-sh'
      A shell script used by an automake generated `Makefile' to pretty
      print the modification time of a file.  This is used to maintain
      version numbers for texinfo files.
 
 `missing'
      A shell script used if some tool is missing entirely.  This is
      used by an automake generated `Makefile' to avoid certain sorts of
      timestamp problems.
 
 `mkinstalldirs'
      A shell script which creates a directory, including all parent
      directories.  This is used by an automake generated `Makefile'
      during installation.
 
 `texinfo.tex'
      Required if you have any texinfo files.  This is used when
      converting Texinfo files into DVI using `texi2dvi' and TeX.
 
 `ylwrap'
      A shell script used by an automake generated `Makefile' to run
      programs like `bison', `yacc', `flex', and `lex'.  These programs
      default to producing output files with a fixed name, and the
      `ylwrap' script runs them in a subdirectory to avoid file name
      conflicts when using a parallel make program.
 

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