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@@ -25,13 +25,11 @@ Building From CVS
To build GNU make from CVS, you will need Autoconf 2.53 (or better),
Automake 1.6.1 (or better), and Gettext 0.11.3-pre2 (or better), and any
-tools that those utilities require (GNU m4, Perl, etc.).
+tools that those utilities require (GNU m4, Perl, etc.). You will also
+need a copy of wget.
After checking out the code, you will need to perform these steps to get
-to the point where you can run "configure" then "make".
-
-Hopefully at some point in the (near) future this will all be obsolete
-and you can just run "autoreconf" and have it DTRT.
+to the point where you can run "make".
1) $ autopoint
@@ -70,12 +68,23 @@ and you can just run "autoreconf" and have it DTRT.
Generate a "configure" script from configure.in and acinclude.m4.
+ 6) $ ./configure
+
+ Generate a Makefile
+
+
+ 7) $ make update
+
+ Use wget to retrieve various other files that GNU make relies on,
+ but does not keep in its own source tree.
+
+
At this point you have successfully brought your CVS copy of the GNU
make source directory up to the point where it can be treated
more-or-less like the official package you would get from ftp.gnu.org.
That is, you can just run:
- $ ./configure && make && make check && make install
+ $ make && make check && make install
to build and install GNU make.
@@ -127,6 +136,7 @@ autoheader
automake --add-missing
autoconf
./configure
+make update
make
make check
make distcheck