diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index d6d7c7c..65cb0ab 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -42,5 +42,4 @@ addons:
       - clang
       - cmake
       - libfuse-dev
-      - libgettextpo-dev
 
diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 54a20ce..bd46c66 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 
-Valient Gough <vgough@pobox.com>
+Primary author: Valient Gough <vgough@pobox.com>
 
+For an up-to-date list of code contributors, see
+https://github.com/vgough/encfs/graphs/contributors
 
-Also, thanks to the work of many contributors, encfs as of 1.1.11 now has
-full or partial translations for many languages.  
-See README-NLS and TRANSLATORS for more details.
+For translations, see README-NLS and https://translations.launchpad.net/encfs/main/
 
diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
deleted file mode 100644
index 936068f..0000000
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-
-if BUILD_NLS
-NLS_DIR = po
-endif
-
-SUBDIRS = encfs m4 $(NLS_DIR)
-
-
-EXTRA_DIST = encfs.spec intl/gettext.h tests README.md
-
-AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = foreign 
-
-MAINTAINERCLEANFILES = aclocal.m4 
-
-
-ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4
-
-.PHONY: test
-test:
-	perl -MTest::Harness -e '$$Test::Harness::verbose=0; runtests @ARGV;' tests/*.t.pl
-
-.PHONY: test-verbose
-test-verbose:
-	perl -MTest::Harness -e '$$Test::Harness::verbose=1; runtests @ARGV;' tests/*.t.pl
-
-.PHONY: benchmark
-benchmark:
-	sudo tests/benchmark.pl /var/tmp
-
-.PHONY: benchmark-reverse
-benchmark-reverse:
-	tests/benchmark-reverse.pl /var/tmp
-	tests/benchmark-reverse.pl /var/tmp --nocache
diff --git a/TRANSLATORS b/TRANSLATORS
deleted file mode 100644
index 58e520f..0000000
--- a/TRANSLATORS
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-Many people have contributed translations for EncFS.  Thank you for making
-EncFS easier for everyone to use!
-
-If you would like to help with translations, please use the online
-interface provided by Canonical Ltd (the makers of Ubuntu Linux):
-    https://translations.launchpad.net/encfs/main/
-
diff --git a/create-dev-pkg.sh b/create-dev-pkg.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..04c5c40
--- /dev/null
+++ b/create-dev-pkg.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+mkdir build
+cd build
+cmake ..
+make -j4
+sudo checkinstall --install=no \
+  --pkgname="encfs" \
+  --provides="encfs"
+