-If you want to hack on the GLib project, it will make you life easier
-to have the following packages installed:
+If you want to hack on the GLib project, you'll need to have the
+following packages installed:
- - GNU autoconf 2.13
- - GNU automake 1.4
- (Beta releases are at ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/tromey)
- - GNU libtool 1.2d
+ - GNU autoconf 2.54
+ - GNU automake 1.7
+ - GNU libtool 1.4
+ - GNU gettext 0.10.40
+ - gtk-doc
These should be available by ftp from ftp.gnu.org or any of the
fine GNU mirrors. Beta software can be found at alpha.gnu.org.
steps at once by running:
cvsroot/glib# ./autogen.sh
-
+
Basically this does the following for you:
cvsroot/glib# aclocal; automake; autoconf
can run the configure script in cvsroot/glib to create all
the Makefiles.
-Before running autogen.sh or configure, make sure you have libtool
-in your path.
+Before running autogen.sh or configure, make sure you have libtool
+in your path.
Note that autogen.sh runs configure for you. If you wish to pass
options like --prefix=/usr to configure you can give those options