All you need to know when hacking (modifying) GNU gettext or when building
it off the CVS.


Requirements
============

You will need reasonably recent versions of the build tools:

  * A C compiler; on Cygwin or mingw also a C++ compiler. Such as GNU GCC.
    + Homepage:
      http://gcc.gnu.org/

  * GNU automake
    + Homepage:
      http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/

  * GNU autoconf
    + Homepage:
      http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/

  * GNU m4
    + Homepage:
      http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/

  * GNU bison
    + Homepage:
      http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/

  * GNU gperf
    + Homepage:
      http://www.gnu.org/software/gperf/

  * GNU groff 1.17 or newer
    + Homepage:
      http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/

  * GNU texinfo
    + Homepage:
      http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/

  * GNU emacs or XEmacs
    + Homepage:
      http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
      http://www.xemacs.org/

  * Perl
    + Homepage:
      http://www.perl.org/

  * TeX (for making the doc in .dvi, .ps or .pdf format)
    + Homepage:
      http://tug.org/teTeX/

  * Either an internet connection or a recent copy of GNU gnulib.
    + Homepage:
      http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/

And, of course, the packages listed in the DEPENDENCIES file.


Building off the CVS
====================

Access to the CVS is described at http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=gettext .

After fetching the sources from the CVS, peek at the comments in autogen.sh,
then run "./autogen.sh"; then you can proceed with "./configure" as usual.