These notes intend to help people working on the CVS version of this package. * Requirements You need the following packages to build the CVS version of GNU Mailutils. We do not make any efforts to accommodate older versions of these packages, so please make sure that you have the latest stable version. - Automake - Autoconf - Bison - Flex - M4 - Texinfo - Wget - Gnulib - Git * Bootstrapping Obviously, if you are reading these notes, you did manage to check out Mailutils from CVS. The next step is to get other files needed to build, which are extracted from other source packages: 1. Change to the source tree directory cd mailutils 2. Run ./bootstrap Notice that at the one of its final stages, bootstrap may spit out several warnings like: pop3d_OBJECTS:.$(OBJEXT: non-POSIX variable name Ignore them, these are due to the bug in automake. Once done, proceed as described in the file README (section INSTALLATION). Normally you will have to run bootstrap only once. However, if you intend to hack on Mailutils, you might need to run it again later. In this case, you will probably want to save some time and bandwidth by avoiding downloading the same files again. If so, create in GNU Mailutils root directory the file named `.bootstrap' with the following contents: --gnulib-srcdir=$HOME/gnulib --skip-po Replace `$HOME/gnulib' with the actual directory where the Gnulib sources reside. For more information about `bootstrap', run `bootstrap --help'. * Copyright information Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved, thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn. Permission is granted to distribute modified versions of this document, or of portions of it, under the above conditions, provided also that they carry prominent notices stating who last changed them. ^L Local Variables: mode: outline paragraph-separate: "[ ^L]*$" version-control: never End: