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+Hacking It Yourself ==================================================
+
+As distributed, the Guile SCSH port needs only a Unix system to build
+and install.  However, its makefiles, configuration scripts, and a few
+other files are automatically generated, not written by hand.  If you
+want to make changes to the system (which we encourage!) you will find
+it helpful to have the tools we use to develop it.  They are the
+following:
+
+Autoconf 2.12 --- a system for automatically generating `configure'
+	scripts from templates which list the non-portable features a
+	program would like to use.  Available in
+	"ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu".
+
+Automake 1.1p --- a system for automatically generating Makefiles that
+	conform to the (rather Byzantine) GNU coding standards.  The
+	nice thing is that it takes care of hairy targets like 'make
+	dist' and 'make distclean', and automatically generates
+	Makefile dependencies.  Available in
+	"ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/tromey".
+
+libtool 0.9d --- a system for managing the zillion hairy options needed
+	on various systems to produce shared libraries.  Available in
+	"ftp://alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu/gnu".
+
+You are lost in a little maze of automatically generated files, all
+different.
+> 
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