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`Makefile.in' at top level

Here are a few modifications you need to make to your main, top-level `Makefile.in' file.

1. Add the following lines near the beginning of your `Makefile.in', so the `dist:' goal will work properly (as explained further down):

   PACKAGE = @PACKAGE@
   VERSION = @VERSION@
   

2. Add file `ABOUT-NLS' to the DISTFILES definition, so the file gets distributed.
3. Wherever you process subdirectories in your `Makefile.in', be sure you also process dir subdirectories `intl' and `po'. Special rules in the `Makefiles' take care for the case where no internationalization is wanted. If you are using Makefiles, either generated by automake, or hand-written so they carefully follow the GNU coding standards, the effected goals for which the new subdirectories must be handled include `installdirs', `install', `uninstall', `clean', `distclean'. Here is an example of a canonical order of processing. In this example, we also define SUBDIRS in Makefile.in for it to be further used in the `dist:' goal.

   SUBDIRS = doc lib @INTLSUB@ src @POSUB@
   

   that you will have to adapt to your own package.
4. A delicate point is the `dist:' goal, as both `intl/Makefile' and `po/Makefile' will later assume that the proper directory has been set up from the main `Makefile'. Here is an example at what the `dist:' goal might look like:

   distdir = $(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION)
   dist: Makefile
   	rm -fr $(distdir)
   	mkdir $(distdir)
   	chmod 777 $(distdir)
   	for file in $(DISTFILES); do \
   	  ln $$file $(distdir) 2>/dev/null || cp -p $$file $(distdir); \
   	done
   	for subdir in $(SUBDIRS); do \
   	  mkdir $(distdir)/$$subdir || exit 1; \
   	  chmod 777 $(distdir)/$$subdir; \
   	  (cd $$subdir && $(MAKE) $@) || exit 1; \
   	done
   	tar chozf $(distdir).tar.gz $(distdir)
   	rm -fr $(distdir)
   

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