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INFO-DIR-SECTION Programming & development tools
   This manual is for GNU Automake (version 1.17, 11 July 2026), a
program that creates GNU standards-compliant Makefiles from template
files.

   Copyright (C) 1995-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

     Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
     document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
     Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software
     Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover texts,
     and with no Back-Cover Texts.  A copy of the license is included
     in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License."


INFO-DIR-SECTION Software development
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* automake-1.17: (automake-1.17).         Making GNU standards-compliant Makefiles.
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INFO-DIR-SECTION Individual utilities
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* aclocal-1.17: (automake-1.17)aclocal Invocation.   Generating aclocal.m4.
* automake-1.17: (automake-1.17)automake Invocation. Generating Makefile.in.
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