This file is only present in the CVS - never in release archives. This contains information about other files and things that the CVS repository keeps in its inner sanctum. CHANGES.0 contains ancient changes. memanalyze.pl is for analyzing the output generated by curl if -DMALLOCDEBUG is used when compiling Makefile.dist is included as the root Makefile in distribution archives perl/ is a subdirectory with various perl scripts To build after having extracted everything from CVS, do this: % automake % aclocal % autoheader % autoconf % ./configure % make