newbie help

[Marcel Janssen]

Hi,

I'm trying to learn autoconf/automake and while doing so I've had a look 
through some packages that use these tools. Rather than using 
autoconf/automake on my own source, I've first tried to strip all generated 
files from the existing package and try to generate new makefiles.

The original package had Makefiles created with automake 1.4. I'm trying to 
create makefiles based on the same Makefile.am that came with the package and 
I assumed it should be possible to create new makefiles from those.
My problem :
Automake creates the Makefile, but there are no binaries build from my 
Makefile.

As I'm still in the phase of learning to use automake and don't know what 
specific item to look for.

Any help is very much appreciated.

regards,
Marcel Janssen