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+Obsolete
+========
+
+The following was written for previous versions of Autothing. I'm
+leaving it here for now because I'll likely canibalize it for other
+bits of documentation, either for Autothing itself, the `files`
+module, or the `dist` module.
+
+High-level overview
+-------------------
+
+It also makes it easy to follow the GNU standards for your makefiles:
+it takes care of this entire table of .PHONY targets for you:
+
+| this | and this | are aliases for this |
+|------+------------------+--------------------------------------------------------|
+| all | build | $(outdir)/build |
+| | install | $(outdir)/install |
+| | uninstall | $(outdir)/uninstall |
+| | mostlyclean | $(outdir)/mostlyclean |
+| | clean | $(outdir)/clean |
+| | distclean | $(outdir)/distclean |
+| | maintainer-clean | $(outdir)/maintainer-clean |
+| | check | $(outdir)/check (not implemented for you) |
+| | dist | $(topoutdir)/$(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION).tar.gz (not .PHONY) |
+
+(You are still responsible for implementing the `$(outdir)/check`
+target in each of your Makefiles.)
+
+----
+Copyright (C) 2016 Luke Shumaker
+
+This documentation file is placed into the public domain. If that is
+not possible in your legal system, I grant you permission to use it in
+absolutely every way that I can legally grant to you.