Thank you for this piece of advice and I am dropping autogen.sh from repository now, but compiling still fails.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> autoreconf Makefile.am: required file `./NEWS' not found Makefile.am: required file `./AUTHORS' not found Makefile.am: required file `./ChangeLog' not found Makefile.am: required file `./COPYING' not found autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1 My Makefile.am is now ============================================= # Makefile.am for zizzy # needed by automake docdir = ${datadir}/doc/${PACKAGE} AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = gnu SUBDIRS = gen ora util man_MANS = doc/zizzy.man EXTRA_DIST = $(man_MANS) EXTRA_DIST += doc/AUTHORS doc/COPYING doc/ChangeLog \ doc/NEWS doc/TODO dist_doc_DATA = AUTHORS COPYING ChangeLog NEWS TODO \ zizzy.man ============================================= I simply want to put AUTHORS, COPYING etc. into a directory called "doc". Would anybody tell me how to solve this problem? Thanks a lot! _________________________________________________________________ Discover the new Windows Vista http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=windows+vista&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE