3 To reduce bandwidth and needless updates, the source repository does not
4 contain automatically-generated files, even when those files are
5 normally present in the distribution tarballs.
7 Therefore, if you're building from the sources obtained from the source
8 repository, you'll need to have at least GNU Autoconf (2.61 or newer)
9 and GNU Automake (1.10 or newer) installed on your system. To generate
10 the Info documentation, you will need the GNU Texinfo package. Those
11 packages are available from <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/<package>/> and
12 its mirrors, listed at <http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html>. Generating
13 the wget.1 manpage, and running some tests, requires Perl.
15 In case you aren't used to running autotools manually to generate the
16 necessary configure script, a script called autogen.sh has been
17 provided, and may be invoked using `./autogen.sh'. Once the script
18 has completed, the configure script will reside in the current
19 directory and you can proceed to build Wget as described in the
22 To summarize, once you've checked out wget from the Subversion
23 repository, the commands you'll execute will be as follows (barring
24 any extra options to `configure' or to `make'):