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+This directory contains sample files that should be in pretty much every
+MATE application.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+To make this work both for MATE Applications inside and outside the
+MATE repository tree I did the following:
+
+* There is an `INSIDE_MATE_COMMON' automake conditional which is defined
+ in two places:
+
+ - macros/aclocal-includes.m4 defines this to always be false.
+
+ - mate-common/configure.in does not include anything from macros and
+ defines this to be true.
+
+* We use this automake conditional in the macros/Makefile.am to install
+ $(MACROS), autogen.sh, mate-common.m4 and a newly created mate-macros.dep
+ in `$(datadir)/aclocal/mate'.
+
+ Since aclocal doesn't look in subdirectories we can safely install them
+ there even when compiling from the repository.
+
+ Also, there is no need to make any change to any existing application
+ in the MATE repository tree - really fine...
+
+* When we're outside the MATE repository tree, we simply need to tell aclocal
+ that it should also look in `$(datadir)/aclocal/mate' and it will find all
+ the macros.
+
+ There is a `mate-skel' module in the repository that can be used as a
+ starting point when writing a new MATE application that should be used
+ outside the repository.
+
+February 4, 1999,
+Martin Baulig <[email protected]>