INSTALL is copied unmodified from the autotools when invoking
autogen.sh. No need to have it in git; that just leads to diffs when
using more recent autotools.
All but toplevel Makefile.am are replaced with their non-recursive
counterparts. The generation of configure.in was removed (and thus
configure-{pre,post}.in are also removed) in favor of configure.ac
and m4 macros adding backend specific configure parts.
Version number is generated like in old build system.
There are still many things to improve, but for now there are no
immediate regressions. AUTOTOOLS-TODO contains a list of possible
improvements and fixes. AUTOTOOLS-TESTING contains what was tested
with current build system (configure flags, make options).
.gitignore itself is under git control and thus should not be ignored.
*.patch was too broad and ignored files which have to be tracked by
git, like test/testcases/*.patch. Now it only matches patch files in
the top-level directory, like the ones which might be created there by
"git format-patch".
Manually updating the LINGUAS file is error prone because new
translations can be added at any time via translate.moblin.org.
Better create the file automatically on each build/release.
Removed a spurious package check for synthesis which was reintroduced
during the recent code cleanup and merging.
Fixed compilation with --enable-unit-tests and/or --enable-integration-tests.
CPPUnit header files were not included properly.
When at least one of these enable options is used, client-test is built
as part of the normal "make all" and installed in bindir as part of
"make install". The test files go into the docdir.
