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+$Id: README.dev,v 1.15 2008/03/25 13:51:20 karl Exp $
+This README.dev file describes the development environment.
+
+  Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
+  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+  Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
+  are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
+  notice and this notice are preserved.
+
+The development sources for GNU Texinfo are available through anonymous
+CVS at Savannah:
+  http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=texinfo
+
+This distribution uses whatever versions of Automake, Autoconf, and
+Gettext are listed in NEWS; usually the latest ones released.  If you
+are getting the sources from CVS (or change configure.ac), you'll need
+to have these tools installed to (re)build.  You'll also need help2man.
+All of these programs are available from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu.
+
+After getting the CVS sources, and installing the tools above, you can run
+ ./autogen.sh
+and then
+ ./configure CFLAGS='-g -Wdeclaration-after-statement' --enable-maintainer-mode
+and then
+ make
+
+After the initial autogen && configure, simply running make should suffice.
+
+The reason for that particular -W is that intermixing declarations with
+statementts is an easy thing to do accidentally, gcc won't warn about it
+by default, and other compilers that don't support it are still
+widespread.  Lots of other -W options can be useful too, and patches are
+welcome to resolve the diagnostics.  Or if you're not using gcc, of
+course you shouldn't include it at all.
+
+This distribution also uses Gnulib (http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib)
+to share common files, with the files being checked in to CVS.  If you
+get automake/conf/etc. errors from ./autogen.sh, please try doing a CVS
+checkout of gnulib (in a separate directory to the texinfo checkout),
+and then run
+  ../gnulib/gnulib-tool --update
+in your top-level Texinfo directory.  (gnulib-tool is in the gnulib CVS tree.)
+
+For the record, a first time invocation would be
+  gnulib-tool --import --m4-base=gnulib/m4 --source-base=gnulib/lib \
+              --no-vc-files getopt
+
+Many more modules have been added since.  The currently-used gnulib
+modules and other gnulib information are recorded in
+gnulib/m4/gnulib-cache.m4.  Given a source checkout of gnulib, you can
+update the files with gnulib-tool --import.