* configure.ac: Add a min_automake_version.

* README.CVS: New.
* autogen.sh: Revamped except for the --build-w32 hack.
* Makefile.am: Add README.CVS

INSTALL

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-Copyright 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation,
-Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Free Software
+Foundation, Inc.
 
    This file is free documentation; the Free Software Foundation gives
 unlimited permission to copy, distribute and modify it.
@@ -71,8 +71,9 @@ Compilers and Options
 the `configure' script does not know about.  Run `./configure --help'
 for details on some of the pertinent environment variables.
 
-   You can give `configure' initial values for variables by setting
-them in the environment.  You can do that on the command line like this:
+   You can give `configure' initial values for configuration parameters
+by setting variables in the command line or in the environment.  Here
+is an example:
 
      ./configure CC=c89 CFLAGS=-O2 LIBS=-lposix
 
@@ -137,9 +138,10 @@ Specifying the System Type
 ==========================
 
    There may be some features `configure' cannot figure out
-automatically, but needs to determine by the type of host the package
-will run on.  Usually `configure' can figure that out, but if it prints
-a message saying it cannot guess the host type, give it the
+automatically, but needs to determine by the type of machine the package
+will run on.  Usually, assuming the package is built to be run on the
+_same_ architectures, `configure' can figure that out, but if it prints
+a message saying it cannot guess the machine type, give it the
 `--build=TYPE' option.  TYPE can either be a short name for the system
 type, such as `sun4', or a canonical name which has the form:
 
@@ -151,20 +153,16 @@ where SYSTEM can have one of these forms:
 
    See the file `config.sub' for the possible values of each field.  If
 `config.sub' isn't included in this package, then this package doesn't
-need to know the host type.
+need to know the machine type.
 
    If you are _building_ compiler tools for cross-compiling, you should
 use the `--target=TYPE' option to select the type of system they will
 produce code for.
 
    If you want to _use_ a cross compiler, that generates code for a
-platform different from the build platform, you should specify the host
-platform (i.e., that on which the generated programs will eventually be
-run) with `--host=TYPE'.  In this case, you should also specify the
-build platform with `--build=TYPE', because, in this case, it may not
-be possible to guess the build platform (it sometimes involves
-compiling and running simple test programs, and this can't be done if
-the compiler is a cross compiler).
+platform different from the build platform, you should specify the
+"host" platform (i.e., that on which the generated programs will
+eventually be run) with `--host=TYPE'.
 
 Sharing Defaults
 ================

README.CVS

@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+If you are building from CVS, 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.  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 autgen.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 the CVS 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.
+
+
+
+