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@@ -10,9 +10,10 @@ automatically generated by `mkfiles.pl', so run that to create them.
 
 The Makefiles include:
 
- - `Makefile' should work under GNU make on Linux, provided you have
-   GTK installed to compile and link against. It builds GTK binaries
-   of the puzzle games.
+ - `Makefile.am', together with the static `configure.ac', is intended
+   as input to automake. Run `mkauto.sh' to turn these into a
+   configure script and Makefile.in, after which you can then run
+   `./configure' to create an actual Unix Makefile.
 
  - `Makefile.vc' should work under MS Visual C++ on Windows.