1 If you are building from Subversion, run the script
5 first, to make sure that you have all the necessary maintainer tools
6 are installed and to build the actual configuration files. Then run
8 ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode
10 followed by the usual make.
12 If autogen.sh complains about insufficient versions of the required
13 tools, or the tools are not installed, you may use environment
14 variables to override the default tool names:
16 AUTOMAKE_SUFFIX is used as a suffix for all tools from the automake
18 AUTOMAKE_SUFFIX="-1.7" ./autogen.sh
19 uses "automake-1.7" and "aclocal-1.7.
20 AUTOMAKE_PREFIX is used as a prefix for all tools from the automake
21 page and may be combined with AUTOMAKE_SUFFIX. e.g.:
22 AUTOMAKE_PREFIX=/usr/foo/bin ./autogen.sh
23 uses "automake" and "aclocal" in the /usr/foo/bin
25 AUTOCONF_SUFFIX is used as a suffix for all tools from the automake
27 AUTOCONF_PREFIX is used as a prefix for all tools from the automake
29 GETTEXT_SUFFIX is used as a suffix for all tools from the gettext
31 GETTEXT_PREFIX is used as a prefix for all tools from the gettext
34 It is also possible to use the variable name AUTOMAKE, AUTOCONF,
35 ACLOCAL, AUTOHEADER, GETTEXT and MSGMERGE to directly specify the name
36 of the programs to run. It is however better to use the suffix and
37 prefix forms as described above because that does not require
38 knowledge about the actual tools used by autgen.sh.
41 Please don't use autopoint, libtoolize or autoreconf unless you are
42 the current maintainer and want to update the standard configuration
43 files. All those files should be in the repository and only updated
44 manually if the maintainer decides that newer versions are required.
45 The maintainer should also make sure that the required version of
46 automake et al. are properly indicated at the top of configure.ac and
47 take care to copy the files and not merely use symlinks.