| If you are building from CVS, run the script | |
| ./autogen.sh | |
| first, to make sure that you have all the necessary maintainer tools | |
| are installed and to build the actual configuration files. Then run | |
| ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode | |
| followed by the usual make. | |
| If autogen.sh complains about insufficient versions of the required | |
| tools, or the tools are not installed, you may use environment | |
| variables to override the default tool names: | |
| AUTOMAKE_SUFFIX is used as a suffix for all tools from the automake | |
| package. For example | |
| AUTOMAKE_SUFFIX="-1.7" ./autogen.sh | |
| uses "automake-1.7" and "aclocal-1.7. | |
| AUTOMAKE_PREFIX is used as a prefix for all tools from the automake | |
| page and may be combined with AUTOMAKE_SUFFIX. e.g.: | |
| AUTOMAKE_PREFIX=/usr/foo/bin ./autogen.sh | |
| uses "automake" and "aclocal" in the /usr/foo/bin | |
| directory. | |
| AUTOCONF_SUFFIX is used as a suffix for all tools from the automake | |
| package | |
| AUTOCONF_PREFIX is used as a prefix for all tools from the automake | |
| package | |
| GETTEXT_SUFFIX is used as a suffix for all tools from the gettext | |
| package | |
| GETTEXT_PREFIX is used as a prefix for all tools from the gettext | |
| package | |
| It is also possible to use the variable name AUTOMAKE, AUTOCONF, | |
| ACLOCAL, AUTOHEADER, GETTEXT and MSGMERGE to directly specify the name | |
| of the programs to run. It is however better to use the suffix and | |
| prefix forms as described above because that does not require | |
| knowledge about the actual tools used by autgen.sh. | |
| Please don't use autopoint, libtoolize or autoreconf unless you are | |
| the current maintainer and want to update the standard configuration | |
| files. All those files should be in the CVS and only updated manually | |
| if the maintainer decides that newer versions are required. The | |
| maintainer should also make sure that the required version of automake | |
| et al. are properly indicated at the top of configure.ac and take care | |
| to copy the files and not merely use symlinks. | |