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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.