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@@ -41,9 +41,14 @@ The file `configure.ac' is the input used by the autoconf program to construct the `configure' script. Since Emacs has some configuration requirements that autoconf can't meet directly, and for historical reasons, `configure.ac' uses an unholy marriage of custom-baked -configuration code and autoconf macros. If you want to rebuild -`configure' from `configure.ac', you will need to install a recent -version of autoconf and GNU m4. +configuration code and autoconf macros. + +The shell script `autogen.sh' generates 'configure' and other files by +running the GNU build tools autoconf and automake, which in turn use +GNU m4 and Perl. If you want to use it, you will need to install +recent versions of these build tools. This should be needed only if +you edit files like `configure.ac' that specify Emacs's autobuild +procedure. The file `Makefile.in' is a template used by `configure' to create `Makefile'. |