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This gives some notes on obtaining the tools required for development.
These tools can be used by the 'bootstrap' and 'configure' scripts,
as well as by 'make'. They include:
- Autoconf <https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/>
- Automake <https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/>
- Gettext <https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/>
- Git <https://git-scm.com/>
- Gzip <https://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/>
- Help2man <https://www.gnu.org/software/help2man/>
- M4 <https://www.gnu.org/software/m4/>
- Make <https://www.gnu.org/software/make/>
- Perl <https://www.cpan.org/>
- Tar <https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/>
- Texinfo <https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/>
- Wget <http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/>
- XZ Utils <https://tukaani.org/xz/>
It is generally better to use official packages for your system.
If a package is not officially available you can build it from source
and install it into a directory that you can then use to build this
package. If some packages are available but are too old, install the
too-old versions first as they may be needed to build newer versions.
Here is an example of how to build a program from source. This
example is for Autoconf; a similar approach should work for the other
developer prerequisites. This example assumes Autoconf 2.71; it
should be OK to use a later version of Autoconf, if available.
prefix=$HOME/prefix # (or wherever else you choose)
export PATH=$prefix/bin:$PATH
wget https://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.71.tar.gz
gzip -d <autoconf-2.71.tar.gz | tar xf -
cd autoconf-2.71
./configure --prefix=$prefix
make install
Once the prerequisites are installed, you can build this package as
described in README-hacking.
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