### Get the sources

```bash

# using git is preferred

git clone https://github.com/sass/libsass.git

# only needed for sassc and/or testsuite

git clone https://github.com/sass/sassc.git libsass/sassc

git clone https://github.com/sass/sass-spec.git libsass/sass-spec

```

### Prerequisites

In order to run autotools you need a few tools installed on your system.

```bash

yum install automake libtool # RedHat Linux

emerge -a automake libtool # Gentoo Linux

pkgin install automake libtool # SmartOS

```

### Create configure script

```bash

cd libsass

autoreconf --force --install

cd ..

```

### Create custom makefiles

```bash

cd libsass

./configure \

  --disable-tests \

  --disable-shared \

  --prefix=/usr

cd ..

```

### Build the library

```bash

make -C libsass -j5

```

### Install the library

The library will be installed to the location given as `prefix` to `configure`. This is standard behavior for autotools and not `libsass` specific.

```bash

make -C libsass -j5 install

```

### Configure options

The `configure` script is created by autotools. To get an overview of available options you can call `./configure --help`. When you execute this script, it will create specific makefiles, which you then use via the regular make command.

There are some `libsass` specific options:

```

Optional Features:

  --enable-tests              enable testing the build

  --enable-coverage           enable coverage report for test suite

  --enable-shared             build shared libraries [default=yes]

  --enable-static             build static libraries [default=yes]

Optional Packages:

  --with-sassc-dir=<dir>      specify directory of sassc sources for

                              testing (default: sassc)

  --with-sass-spec-dir=<dir>  specify directory of sass-spec for testing

                              (default: sass-spec)

```

### Build sassc and run spec test-suite

```bash

cd libsass

autoreconf --force --install

./configure \

  --enable-tests \

  --enable-shared \

  --prefix=/usr

make -j5 test_build

cd ..

```