-If you are building from Subversion, run the script
+If you are building from GIT, 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. If you
-have just updated from SVN, you should add the option "--force" to
-autogen.sh so that meta data from SVN is noticed. Then run
+have just checked out from GIT, you should add the option "--force" to
+autogen.sh so that meta data is noticed by autom4te.cache. Then run
./configure --enable-maintainer-mode
variables to override the default tool names:
AUTOMAKE_SUFFIX is used as a suffix for all tools from the automake
- package. For example
+ 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
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.
+knowledge about the actual tools used by autogen.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 SVN and only updated manually
+files. All those files should be in GIT 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.
-
-