We have moved to http://sv.gnu.org/projects/erc. ERC is a powerful, modular, and extensible IRC client for Emacs and XEmacs. Full documentation can be found on the wiki by following the "Home Page" link.
elmake is a way to provide makefiles for elisp packages (for emacs) which are processed completely in Elisp (no external autoconf, make etc. required). For info files, an external makeinfo is suggested, as elisp parsing of info files is slow.