> Well, just in a quick check of some of the stuff that I've compiled
> recently and just judging by whether or not there are Makefile.am files
> (so I could miss some automake projects that don't distribute those files
> or call them something different), grace, xlispstat, gnuplot, vim, and
> xemacs all use autoconf but don't use automake. Similarly with tiff,
> Kerberos, GCC, slang, Berkeley DB, readline, INN, and ncurses.
The release version of gnuplot, 3.7.x, doesn't use it, true, but the
development version switched to automake more than two years ago.
$ pwd
/usr/local/src/cvs/gnuplot
$ cvs status -v Makefile.am | tail -2
GNUPLOT_990328_TRANSITIONAL_1 (revision: 1.1)
$
Your point still stands, nevertheless.
