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Make the new autogen.sh behave more like the old one - run glib-gettextize, and don't force updates to files when running autoconf and automake. I also made it so any custom AUTO*_FLAGS specified will override the default arguments instead of just appending to them.

For information on writing a plugin for Purple, Pidgin or Finch, go
http://developer.pidgin.im and click on API.  From there, see the HOWTOs in the
"Related Pages" section.

You can also generate this documentation locally by installing
doxygen and graphviz dot, then running "make docs" in the
source tree.  The documentation will be in the docs/html directory.