Important note:

To reduce bandwidth and needless updates, the CVS tree does not
contain automatically generated files, even when those are normally
present in the distribution tarballs.  All of these are recreated by
the build process, except for `configure', which is needed to start
the build in the first place.

To build Wget from the CVS sources, all you need aside from the normal
C development tools (make, cc) is Autoconf, which you can get from
<http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/autoconf.html>.  Wget does not
use Automake or Libtool, so you needn't worry about those.

For your convenience, Makefile.cvs is a make file containing the
necessary preparations, which currently amount to calling Autoconf.
Invoke it with `make -f Makefile.cvs', and after that you're ready to
build Wget in the normal fashion, e.g. with `./configure' followed by
`make'.

The simplest example of downloading and building Wget from CVS can
look like this:

    cvs -d :pserver:... checkout wget
    cd wget
    make -f Makefile.cvs
    ./configure
    make


The instructions that explain how to check out Wget from CVS in the
first place are available at <http://sunsite.dk/wget/> under
"Development".