Changelog from CVS HEAD shows that as of Mar 1999, the above options were removed. Found out the hard way working with CVS autoconf -). Anyway, build-dir is indeed gone from automake.in, however include-deps is still present in automake.in. Along the same lines, both options are still listed in automake.text... I'd be happy to submit a patch for the docs, if you could just make clear which options are/should be present and which aren't/shouldn't -) Thanks Gordon Sadler