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Automake 'foreign' option is specified in configure.ac.
Remove from Makefile.am

Add missing INSTALL file. Use standard GNU file on building tarball
README may have been updated
Remove AUTHORS file as it is empty and no content available yet.
Remove NEWS file as it is empty and no content available yet.

The git generated ChangeLog replaces the hand written one.
Update configure.ac to xorg-macros level 1.3.
Use XORG_DEFAULT_OPTIONS which replaces four XORG_* macros
Update Makefile.am to add ChangeLog target if missing
Remove ChangeLog from EXTRA_DIST or *CLEAN variables
This is a pre-req for the INSTALL_CMD

Using common defaults will reduce errors and maintenance.
Only the very small or inexistent custom section need periodic maintenance
when the structure of the component changes. Do not edit defaults.

To build VESA driver for use with pci-rework Xserver, add --enable-pciacces
to the configure command line.  Otherwise, the "traditional" VESA driver will
be built.

We were determining it from the mode which is current at X server startup,
which may have a completely different pitch.

Based on Adam Jackson's shadow framebuffer fixes in xf86-video-vesa.

Add a couple of items while we're at it.

"XFree86 code without an explicit copyright is covered by the
following copyright/license" ....

Discussed on xorg list.

    #5460 (Kevin Martin), and apply fix for miext/shadow crasher
    https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6940 (Kristian Hoegsberg).

    update to fix bug #5167 (Linux prefers *.1x man pages in man1 subdir)