Makefile.am

A Makefile.am is a file to be transformed into a Makefile by automake and configure. Makefile.am's are usually written by programmers who know that delivering a Makefile directly can fail, e.g. because of different paths in different distributions. A good tutorial how to write Makefile.am's can be found at: http://developer.kde.org/documentation/other/makefile_am_howto/en/makefile_am_howto.html