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+
+Building Comedilib from CVS is slightly different from the releases.
+There is an additional step of creating the configure script and
+makefiles from the templates using automake, autoconf, etc. This
+is all done automatically by running the script ./autogen.sh.
+
+You may need to edit the autogen.sh script so that it runs the
+appropriate commands. Often, the necessary commands have version
+suffixes. Occasionally, for strange reasons, errors can be
+solved by running ./autogen.sh twice.
+
+Requirements:
+
+ automake >= 1.6
+ autoconf >= 2.54
+ libtool >= 1.5
+
+