This module contains various files needed to bootstrap GNOME modules built from git. It contains the following components: 1. A common "autogen.sh" script that can be used to configure a source directory checked out from git. 2. Some commonly used macros (quite a small set these days -- macros should be packaged with their respective modules). To make use of the common autogen script, create a stub autogen.sh script in your module that looks something like this: ---- Cut Here ---- #!/bin/sh srcdir=`dirname $0` [ -z "$srcdir" ] && srcdir=. if [ ! -f "$srcdir/configure.ac" ]; then echo "$srcdir doesn't look like source directory for $PKG_NAME" >&2 exit 1 fi which gnome-autogen.sh || { echo "You need to install gnome-common from GNOME Git" exit 1 } . gnome-autogen.sh "$@" ---- Cut Here ---- Then put the following in your configure.ac or configure.in file: AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4]) AC_SUBST([ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS], ["-I $ac_macro_dir \${ACLOCAL_FLAGS}"]) This will make sure that autoconf macros will be found when you rebuild the package without rerunning autogen.sh.