If you are building from GIT, run the script

./autogen.sh

first, to make sure that you have all the necessary maintainer tools

are installed and to build the actual configuration files.  If you

have just checked out from GIT, you should add the option "--force" to

autogen.sh so that meta data is noticed by autom4te.cache.  Then run

./configure --enable-maintainer-mode

followed by the usual make.

If autogen.sh complains about insufficient versions of the required

tools, or the tools are not installed, you may use environment

variables to override the default tool names:

 AUTOMAKE_SUFFIX  is used as a suffix for all tools from the automake

                  package.  For example

                     AUTOMAKE_SUFFIX="-1.7" ./autogen.sh

                  uses "automake-1.7" and "aclocal-1.7.

 AUTOMAKE_PREFIX  is used as a prefix for all tools from the automake

                  page and may be combined with AUTOMAKE_SUFFIX. e.g.:

                    AUTOMAKE_PREFIX=/usr/foo/bin ./autogen.sh

                  uses "automake" and "aclocal" in the /usr/foo/bin

                  directory.

 AUTOCONF_SUFFIX  is used as a suffix for all tools from the automake

                  package

 AUTOCONF_PREFIX  is used as a prefix for all tools from the automake

                  package

 GETTEXT_SUFFIX   is used as a suffix for all tools from the gettext

                  package

 GETTEXT_PREFIX   is used as a prefix for all tools from the gettext

                  package

It is also possible to use the variable name AUTOMAKE, AUTOCONF,

ACLOCAL, AUTOHEADER, GETTEXT and MSGMERGE to directly specify the name

of the programs to run.  It is however better to use the suffix and

prefix forms as described above because that does not require

knowledge about the actual tools used by autogen.sh.

Please don't use autopoint, libtoolize or autoreconf unless you are

the current maintainer and want to update the standard configuration

files.  All those files should be in GIT and only updated manually

if the maintainer decides that newer versions are required.  The

maintainer should also make sure that the required version of automake

et al. are properly indicated at the top of configure.ac and take care

to copy the files and not merely use symlinks.