1 If you are building from GIT, 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. If you
7 have just checked out from GIT, you should add the option "--force" to
8 autogen.sh so that meta data is noticed by autom4te.cache. Then run
10 ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode
12 followed by the usual make.
14 If autogen.sh complains about insufficient versions of the required
15 tools, or the tools are not installed, you may use environment
16 variables to override the default tool names:
18 AUTOMAKE_SUFFIX is used as a suffix for all tools from the automake
20 AUTOMAKE_SUFFIX="-1.14" ./autogen.sh
21 uses "automake-1.14" and "aclocal-1.14.
22 AUTOMAKE_PREFIX is used as a prefix for all tools from the automake
23 page and may be combined with AUTOMAKE_SUFFIX. e.g.:
24 AUTOMAKE_PREFIX=/usr/foo/bin ./autogen.sh
25 uses "automake" and "aclocal" in the /usr/foo/bin
27 AUTOCONF_SUFFIX is used as a suffix for all tools from the automake
29 AUTOCONF_PREFIX is used as a prefix for all tools from the automake
31 GETTEXT_SUFFIX is used as a suffix for all tools from the gettext
33 GETTEXT_PREFIX is used as a prefix for all tools from the gettext
36 It is also possible to use the variable name AUTOMAKE, AUTOCONF,
37 ACLOCAL, AUTOHEADER, GETTEXT and MSGMERGE to directly specify the name
38 of the programs to run. It is however better to use the suffix and
39 prefix forms as described above because that does not require
40 knowledge about the actual tools used by autogen.sh.
43 Please don't use autopoint, libtoolize or autoreconf unless you are
44 the current maintainer and want to update the standard configuration
45 files. All those files should be in GIT and only updated manually
46 if the maintainer decides that newer versions are required. The
47 maintainer should also make sure that the required version of automake
48 et al. are properly indicated at the top of configure.ac and take care
49 to copy the files and not merely use symlinks.