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These files are shell and perl scripts used for configuring/building R.
They are not required at run time, and hence not installed.

The files are as follows.

  config.guess
  config.sub
  install-sh
  mdate-sh
  missing
    standard tools from GNU autoconf.  Taken from the autoconf CVS
    (pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/autoconf, module 
    'autoconf').

  GETCONFIG
    create API 'Rconfig.h' from the configure information in
    'config.h'.
  GETDISTNAME
    get the name of the distribution tarball.
  GETMAKEVAL
    get the value of a Make variable from a Makefile [this needs to
    be improved].
  GETVERSION
    create API 'Rversion.h' from 'VERSION' and 'SVN-REVISION'.
  
  Rdnewer.pl
    determine whether any Rd file in an Rd tree is newer than a
    given file.
  
  copy-if-change
    copy a file if changed; otherwise, do nothing.

  getsp.class
  getsp.java
    Java class (source and compiled bytecode) used for extracting
    system properties when detecting Java support in configure.
    We don't require the existence of a Java compiler, so we need
    to supply the compiled version as well.

  help2man.pl
    generate simple manual pages from program output.  Taken from
    the GNU help2man package (ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/help2man/).
    
  install-info.pl
    create or update entry in Info directory.  Taken from the Debian
    GNU/Linux stable distribution.

  keywords2html.pl
    convert 'KEYWORDS.db' to HTML.
    
  ldAIX4
    writes an export file, assembling the exported symbols by
    reading the output of nm.  This file is needed on AIX (4.2 and
    later) to compile shared libs.

  link-recommended
    create links with simplified names to the recommended packages.
  
  linkcheck.pl
    comment out links that are not available.

  ltmain.sh
    provide generalized library-building support services.  Taken
    from Libtool 1.5; older versions taken from the Libtool CVS
    (:pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/libtool, module
    'libtool').

  move-if-change
    move a file if changed; otherwise, remove.

  pkg2tex.pl
    create a single 'PKGNAME-pkg.tex' file from the package docs in
    LaTeX format.

  rsync-recommended
    obtain sources for the recommended packages using rsync, and then
    create links with simplified names to these.

  updatefat
    updates a fat file by adding a new architecture (Mac OS X only)
    it is essentially a smart wrapper for "lipo".