NEWS, README, AUTHORS, ChangeLog

[Martin Bernreuther]

Hallo,

how about adding the files

NEWS
README
AUTHORS
ChangeLog

Even if these are empty (you might use "touch" to create them)
this will stop "automake" complaining!

It might also be considerable to add a file "Makefile.configure"
with a content like:

all: configure Makefile.in
    # Now you may proceed with ./configure and make

Makefile.in: Makefile.am configure.in aclocal.m4
    automake --add-missing

configure: aclocal.m4
    autoconf

aclocal.m4:
    aclocal

clean:
    rm -f aclocal.m4
    rm -f configure
    rm -rf autom4te.cache
    rm -f Makefile.in
    rm -f depcomp install-sh missing

A new user not familiar with auto* just starts with
make -f Makefile.configure
./configure
without thinking about what to do to get the configure file.
This is not useful, if the library is part of another project though.
So maybe some hints in the README file are the better way...

Regards,
Martin Bernreuther

[Yves Berquin]

Very useful, thanks
I added this in 1.3.0