This is AutoGen, an automated text file generator.  It was inspired
out of frustration and hassle with maintaining syncronization between
option flag lists, global variables and usage information.  The desire
for more than #define macros came about when it became apparent that
macros alone were insufficient for reducing the maintenance into a
single option list.  The impetus to actually start something finally
came when I had to maintain a large callout procedure table and
associated lookup tables.

Rev 1 of this utility was a set of #define macro expansions.
Rev 2 was a shell script that sort-of did a prototype.
      Much better than just #defines, but still clearly lacking.
Rev 3 had a very kludgy macro definition syntax.
Rev 4 a reworking and simplification of the declarations
      First publicly available release.
Rev 5 will require the addition of the Guile library

Until a mailing list is organized, direct email to the author:

    Bruce Korb <bkorb@gnu.org>


AutoGen requires:
1.  POSIX regular expression library
    Use the --with-regex-prefix and --with-regex-lib, or
    the --with-included-regex  options to autoconf if
    it cannot otherwise locate a suitable library, or if
    the suitable library has inconsistent procedure declarations
    (viz. AIX).
2.  an ANSI C compiler

Note to SCO/OS5 users:
	This product uses libtool.  It apparently behaves incorrectly
	in the presence of gcc and consequently needs to use /bin/cc.
	Configure this program with:

		CC=/bin/cc ./configure
