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. Copyright 2004 g10 Code GmbH This file is free software; as a special exception the author gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it, with or without modifications, as long as this notice is preserved. This file is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.