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Rebuilding Makefiles

Automake generates rules to automatically rebuild Makefiles, configure, and other derived files like Makefile.in.

If you are using AM_MAINTAINER_MODE in configure.in, then these automatic rebuilding rules are only enabled in maintainer mode.

Sometimes you need to run aclocal with an argument like -I to tell it where to find .m4 files. Since sometimes make will automatically run aclocal, you need a way to specify these arguments. You can do this by defining ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS; this holds arguments which are passed verbatim to aclocal. This variable is only useful in the top-level Makefile.am.