How to build this project?

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Published on 2010-03-17T04:53:13Z Indexed on 2010/03/17 5:01 UTC
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Hi, I've been a visual studio developer for long and just trying to understand how things are in linux/unix worl. I found an open source project (Gcomandos) in source forge and tried to build it. when I download the source, I get these files:

16/02/2007  05:16 PM            25,987 aclocal.m4
16/02/2007  05:17 PM           127,445 configure
16/02/2007  05:16 PM             1,925 configure.ac
17/03/2010  03:48 PM    <DIR>          gComandos
16/02/2007  05:16 PM               332 gcomandos.pc.in
25/11/2006  10:03 PM             9,233 install-sh
16/02/2007  05:16 PM               353 Makefile.am
16/02/2007  05:17 PM            20,662 Makefile.in
16/02/2007  05:16 PM             1,019 Makefile.include
25/11/2006  10:03 PM            11,014 missing

I am now lost. I tried making the .am or the .in files, but GnuMake says there is nothing to make. I tried running the shell scripts, but I got errors. Any guidance appreciated.

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