From kde-core-devel  Thu May 16 19:35:46 2002
From: Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 19:35:46 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: KDE CVS: build instructions
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=102163745215102

As of now you need the following tools to build KDE from CVS:

	autoconf 2.5x
	autoheader 2.5x
	automake 1.5


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You can check the version of these tools with the following commands:

	autoconf --version
	autoheader --version
	automake --version

If you do not have the correct version you might want to try if one of the=
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following commands are available:

	/usr/bin/autoconf-2.53 --version
	/usr/bin/autoheader-2.53 --version
	/usr/bin/automake-1.5 --version


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If you do not have the correct versions installed on your system you need t=
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install these on your system, you can download them from the following=20
locations:
	ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.53.tar.gz [967Kb]
	ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.5.tar.gz [514Kb]

(You do not need to download autoheader, autoheader is part of autoconf)


MULTIPLE VERSIONS
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Installing multiple versions of autoconf/autoheader/automake is easy.=20
=46or autoconf use:
	./configure --prefix /usr/local/autoconf-2.53
	make install
	ln -s /usr/local/autoconf-2.53/bin/autoconf /usr/bin/autoconf-2.53
	ln -s /usr/local/autoconf-2.53/bin/autoheader /usr/bin/autoheader-2.53
	ln -s /usr/local/autoconf-2.53/bin/autom4te /usr/bin/autom4te-2.53

=46or automake use:
	./configure --prefix /usr/local/automake-1.5
	make install
	ln -s /usr/local/automake-1.5/bin/automake /usr/bin/automake-1.5
	ln -s /usr/local/automake-1.5/bin/aclocal /usr/bin/aclocal-1.5

Cheers,
Waldo
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