diff --git a/.cvsignore b/.cvsignore
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--- a/.cvsignore
+++ b/.cvsignore
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+automake-1.4.tar.gz
diff --git a/automake.spec b/automake.spec
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b3e8709
--- /dev/null
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+Summary: A GNU tool for automatically creating Makefiles.
+Name: automake
+Version: 1.4
+Release: 8
+Copyright: GPL
+Group: Development/Tools
+Source: ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/home/tromey/automake-%{version}.tar.gz
+Patch0: automake-1.4-19980208.patch
+Patch1: automake-1.4-armnetwinder.patch
+Patch2: automake-1.4-copytosourcedir.patch
+URL: http://sourceware.cygnus.com/automake
+Requires: perl
+Prereq: /sbin/install-info
+BuildArchitectures: noarch
+Buildroot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-root
+
+%description
+Automake is an experimental Makefile generator. Automake was inspired
+by the 4.4BSD make and include files, but aims to be portable and to
+conform to the GNU standards for Makefile variables and targets.
+
+You should install Automake if you are developing software and would
+like to use its capabilities of automatically generating GNU
+standard Makefiles. if you install Automake, you will also need to
+install GNU's Autoconf package.
+
+%prep
+%setup -q
+# XXX don't apply development patch from CVS.
+#%patch0 -p0 -b .19980208
+%patch1 -p1 -b .armnetwinder
+%patch2 -p0 -b .copytosourcedir
+
+%build
+#./configure --prefix=%{_prefix}
+
+%configure
+make
+
+%install
+rm -rf ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}
+
+#make install prefix=${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}%{_prefix}
+%makeinstall
+
+gzip -9nf ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}%{_infodir}/automake*
+
+%clean
+rm -rf ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}
+
+%post
+/sbin/install-info %{_infodir}/automake.info.gz %{_infodir}/dir
+
+%preun
+if [ $1 = 0 ]; then
+    /sbin/install-info --delete %{_infodir}/automake.info.gz %{_infodir}/dir
+fi
+
+%files
+%defattr(-,root,root)
+%doc AUTHORS COPYING ChangeLog INSTALL NEWS README THANKS TODO
+%{_bindir}/*
+%{_infodir}/*.info*
+%{_datadir}/automake
+%{_datadir}/aclocal
+
+%changelog
+* Wed Jul 12 2000 Prospector <bugzilla@redhat.com>
+- automatic rebuild
+
+* Mon Jun  5 2000 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>
+- FHS packaging.
+
+* Fri Feb 04 2000 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com>
+- fix bug #8870
+
+* Sat Aug 21 1999 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>
+- revert to pristine automake-1.4.
+
+* Mon Mar 22 1999 Preston Brown <pbrown@redhat.com>
+- arm netwinder patch
+
+* Wed Feb 24 1999 Preston Brown <pbrown@redhat.com>
+- Injected new description and group.
+
+* Mon Feb  8 1999 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>
+- add patches from CVS for 6.0beta1
+
+* Sun Jan 17 1999 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>
+- update to 1.4.
+
+* Mon Nov 23 1998 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>
+- update to 1.3b.
+- add URL.
+
+* Fri Apr 24 1998 Prospector System <bugs@redhat.com>
+- translations modified for de, fr, tr
+
+* Tue Apr 07 1998 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
+- updated to 1.3
+
+* Tue Oct 28 1997 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>
+- added BuildRoot; added aclocal files
+
+* Fri Oct 24 1997 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
+- made it a noarch package
+
+* Thu Oct 16 1997 Michael Fulbright <msf@redhat.com>
+- Fixed some tag lines to conform to 5.0 guidelines.
+
+* Thu Jul 17 1997 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
+- updated to 1.2
+
+* Wed Mar 5 1997 msf@redhat.com <Michael Fulbright>
+- first version (1.0)
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index e69de29..7a9da32 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+1d483ffa4349bfc9ab8ae0de0c617c7b  automake-1.4.tar.gz