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Automake is a tool for automatically generating Makefile. ins from files called Makefile. am. Each Makefile. am is basically a series of make variable definitions1, with rules being thrown in occasionally. The generated Makefile. ins are compliant with the GNU Makefile standards.

The GNU Makefile Standards Document (see Section “Makefile Conventions” in The GNU Coding Standards) is long, complicated, and subject to change. The goal of Automake is to remove the burden of Makefile maintenance from the back of the individual GNU maintainer (and put it on the back of the Automake maintainers).