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@@ -45,11 +45,10 @@ The file 'configure.ac' is the input used by the autoconf program to
construct the 'configure' script.
The shell script 'autogen.sh' generates 'configure' and other files by
-running the GNU build tools autoconf and automake, which in turn use
-GNU m4 and Perl. If you want to use it, you will need to install
-recent versions of these build tools. This should be needed only if
-you edit files like 'configure.ac' that specify Emacs's autobuild
-procedure.
+running Autoconf, which in turn uses GNU m4. If you want to use it,
+you will need to install recent versions of these build tools. This
+should be needed only if you edit files like 'configure.ac' that
+specify Emacs's autobuild procedure.
The file 'Makefile.in' is a template used by 'configure' to create
'Makefile'.