-If you want to hack on the Gtk+ project, it will make you life easier
-to have the following packages installed:
+If you want to hack on the GTK+ project, you'll need to have
+the following packages installed:
- - GNU autoconf 2.12
- - GNU automake 1.2d
- Available in ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/tromey
- - GNU libtool 1.0h
- Available in ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/
+ - GNU autoconf 2.52
+ - GNU automake 1.4
+ - GNU libtool 1.4
+ - indent (GNU indent 1.9.1 is known good)
+ - GNU gettext 10.40
-These should be available by ftp from prep.ai.mit.edu or any of the
+These should be available by ftp from ftp.gnu.org or any of the
fine GNU mirrors. Beta software can be found at alpha.gnu.org.
-If you are accessing gtk+ via CVS, then you will need to take several
-steps to get it to compile. These are:
+In order to get CVS gtk+ installed on your system, you need to have
+the most recent CVS version of glib, pango, and atk installed as well.
+The installation process of these libraries is similar to that of gtk+, but
+needs to be fulfilled prior to installation of gtk+.
- cvsroot/gtk+# aclocal; automake; autoconf
- cvsroot/gtk+/glib# aclocal; automake; autoconf
+To compile a CVS version of gtk+ on your system, you will need to take
+several steps to setup the tree for compilation. You can do all these
+steps at once by running:
-The "configure" scripts will not exist until you take these steps.
-you only need to call "configure" i cvsroot/gtk+ as the one in
-glib will be invoked automatically.
+ cvsroot/gtk+# ./autogen.sh
+
+Basically this does the following for you:
-Before running configure, make sure you have libtool in your path
+ cvsroot/gtk+# aclocal; automake; autoconf
+
+ The above commands create the "configure" script. Now you
+ can run the configure script in cvsroot/gtk+ to create all
+ the Makefiles.
+
+Before running autogen.sh or configure, make sure you have libtool
+in your path.
+
+Note that autogen.sh runs configure for you. If you wish to pass
+options like --prefix=/usr to configure you can give those options
+to autogen.sh and they will be passed on to configure.
+
+If at all possible, please use CVS to get the latest development version of
+gtk+ and glib. You can do the following to get glib and gtk+ from cvs:
+
+ $ export CVSROOT=':pserver:anonymous@cvs.gnome.org:/cvs/gnome'
+ $ cvs login
+ (there is no password, just hit return)
+ $ cvs -z3 checkout glib
+ $ cvs -z3 checkout pango
+ $ cvs -z3 checkout atk
+ $ cvs -z3 checkout gtk+
+
+For information about submitting patches and commiting changes
+to CVS, see the README and README.cvs-commits files. In particular,
+don't, under any circumstances, commit anything to CVS before
+reading and understanding README.cvs-commmits.
-Please submit patches to the gtk-list@redhat.com mailing list (you must
-subscribe before you post, e-mail gtk-list-request@redhat.com with a
-subject of "subscribe"). All kinds of contributions are accepted. If at
-all possible, please use CVS to get the latest development version of
-gtk+; the README file has the CVSROOT information.