Important note:
-To reduce bandwidth and needless updates, the Subversion tree does not
+To reduce bandwidth and needless updates, the source repository does not
contain automatically-generated files, even when those files are
normally present in the distribution tarballs.
-Therefore, if you're building from the sources obtained via
-Subversion, you'll need to have at least GNU Autoconf (2.59 or newer)
-installed on your system. To generate the Info documentation, you
-will need the GNU Texinfo package. Finally, if your system does not
-have gettext and you want the support for internationalized messages,
-you will also need GNU gettext. The three packages are available from
-<ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/<package>/> and its mirrors (please choose
-one close to you), listed at <http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html>.
+Therefore, if you're building from the sources obtained from the source
+repository, you'll need to have at least GNU Autoconf (2.61 or newer)
+and GNU Automake (1.10 or newer) installed on your system. To generate
+the Info documentation, you will need the GNU Texinfo package. Those
+packages are available from <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/<package>/> and
+its mirrors, listed at <http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html>. Generating
+the wget.1 manpage, and running some tests, requires Perl.
-In case you aren't used to running autoconf manually to generate the
+In case you aren't used to running autotools manually to generate the
necessary configure script, a script called autogen.sh has been
provided, and may be invoked using `./autogen.sh'. Once the script
has completed, the configure script will reside in the current
-directory and you can proceed to build Wget in the usual fashion.
+directory and you can proceed to build Wget as described in the
+`INSTALL' file.
To summarize, once you've checked out wget from the Subversion
repository, the commands you'll execute will be as follows (barring
projects / wget / blobdiff