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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 |