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(1)

Autoconf 2.50 promotes `configure.ac' over `configure.in'. The rest of this documentation will refer to `configure.in' as this use is not yet spread, but Automake supports `configure.ac' too.

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We believe. This work is new and there are probably warts. See section 1. Introduction, for information on reporting bugs.

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There are other, more obscure reasons reasons for this limitation as well.

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Much, if not most, of the information in the following sections pertaining to preprocessing Fortran 77 programs was taken almost verbatim from section `Catalogue of Rules' in The GNU Make Manual.

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For example, the cfortran package addresses all of these inter-language issues, and runs under nearly all Fortran 77, C and C++ compilers on nearly all platforms. However, cfortran is not yet Free Software, but it will be in the next major release.

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See http://sources.redhat.com/automake/dependencies.html for more information on the history and experiences with automatic dependency tracking in Automake

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However, for the case of a non-installed header file that is actually used by a particular program, we recommend listing it in the program's `_SOURCES' variable instead of in noinst_HEADERS. We believe this is more clear.



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