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