12.2. What Goes In
Automake tries to make creating a distribution as easy as possible. The rules are set up by default to distribute those things that Automake knows belong in a distribution. For instance, Automake always distributes your 'configure' script and your 'NEWS' file. All the files Automake automatically distributes are shown by automake --help:
$ automake --help ... Files which are automatically distributed, if found: ABOUT-GNU README config.guess ltconfig ABOUT-NLS THANKS config.h.bot ltmain.sh AUTHORS TODO config.h.top mdate-sh BACKLOG acconfig.h config.sub missing COPYING acinclude.m4 configure mkinstalldirs COPYING.LIB aclocal.m4 configure.in stamp-h.in ChangeLog ansi2knr.1 elisp-comp stamp-vti INSTALL ansi2knr.c install-sh texinfo.tex ...
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