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General ideas
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   The following sections cover a few basic ideas that will help you
understand how Automake works.

General Operation

General operation of Automake

Depth

The kinds of packages

Strictness

Standards conformance checking

Uniform

The Uniform Naming Scheme

Canonicalization

How derived variables are named