wget/README.checkout

Compiling From Repository Sources

   To reduce bandwidth and needless updates, the source code repository
   does not contain automatically-generated files, even when these are
   normally present in the distribution tarballs. Therefore, to build GNU
   Wget from the sources in the repository, you'll need to have one or
   more of the following (note that gettext, OpenSSL, libidn and libiconv
   are not absolutely required):

     * [20]autoconf (currently, GNU Wget requires version 2.61). This is
       needed to generate the configure script from configure.in. This is
       not required when building from a tarball distribution; only when
       building from repository sources.

     * [21]automake (currently, GNU Wget requires version 1.10.1). This is
       needed for generating the Makefile.in templates that the configure
       script uses to generate the Makefiles. As with autoconf, it is not
       required when building from a tarball distribution; only when
       building from repository sources.

     * [22]flex is needed to generate the CSS-parsing code.

     * [23]Perl, if you wish to generate the wget(1) manpage, or run the
       tests in the tests/ sub directory. Tarball distributions include an
       already-generated wget.1 manual. The command "make check" runs the
       test suite written in perl. To execute all the tests you need
       [24]libwww-perl perl library. If "perl -MCPAN -e 'install
       Bundle::LWP'" fails then you most likely don't have cpan module
       installed. First download [25]CPAN and [26]install it. Then execute
       "perl -MCPAN -e 'install Bundle::LWP'". Now "make check" should
       pass most of the tests in the test suite.

     * [27]texinfo in order to generate Info, PostScript and/or HTML
       documentation. You don't need texinfo in order to generate the
       wget(1) manpage; however, note that the manpage does not include
       the full documentation. Tarball distributions include the
       already-generated documentation in these formats.

     * [28]gettext, if you wish to compile with NLS (Native Language
       Support), which is enabled by default. If you do not have gettext,
       you can compile without it by specifying --disable-nls to the
       ./configure script. This is true regardless of where you obtained
       the source you're building. NOTE: if you get errors about
       AM_GNU_GETTEXT and/or AM_INTL_SUBDIR, you probably have a buggy
       version of GNU m4. Upgrade to the latest version. You may also need
       to export M4=<new m4 path>, to be sure that autoconf/automake use
       it instead of the old one.

     * [29]OpenSSL to handle encrypted web sessions. You almost certainly
       want this. It is not enough to have the library installed; you need
       to have the header files available to compile against as well. For
       GNU/Linux systems, this usually means installing a "developer"
       package for openssl (for example, [30]Debian systems require
       installation of the libssl-dev package). Alternatively, you can
       compile GNU Wget against the [31]GNUTLS library instead, by
       specifying --with-ssl=gnutls to the ./configure script; however,
       building against GNUTLS is currently experimental, and not
       officially supported. If you have OpenSSL and its development
       headers installed, but don't want to build Wget with it, specify
       --without-ssl to the ./configure script.

     * [32]libidn is required for IDN/IRI support (non-ASCII characters
       within what would otherwise be URLs).

     * [33]libiconv is required on non-GNU systems, for IDN/IRI support.
       On GNU systems, the functionality provided by libiconv is already
       present in the system libraries.

   For those who might be confused as to what to do once they check out
   the source code, considering configure and Makefile do not yet exist at
   that point, a shell script called autogen.sh has been provided. After
   calling ./autogen.sh you're ready to build GNU Wget in the normal
   fashion, with ./configure and make.

   So, to sum up, after checking out the source code as described above,
   you may proceed as follows:
    1. Change to the topmost GNU Wget directory:
 $  cd wget        # assumes you've cloned a repository to "./wget"
    2. Generate all the automatically-generated files required prior to
       configuring the package:
 $  ./autogen.sh
    3. Configure the package and compile it:
 $  ./configure [some_parameters]
 $  make
    4. Hack, compile, test, hack, compile, test...
 $  src/wget --version
 GNU Wget 1.12-devel (9cb2563197bc)

 Copyright <20> 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
 This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
 There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

 Originally written by Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@xemacs.org>.
 Currently maintained by Micah Cowan <micah@cowan.name>.

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References

  20. http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/
  21. http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/
  22. http://flex.sourceforge.net/
  23. http://www.perl.org/
  24. http://search.cpan.org/dist/libwww-perl/lib/Bundle/LWP.pm
  25. http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/CPAN-1.9402.tar.gz
  26. http://apthorpe.cynistar.net/code/configuring_cpan.html
  27. http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/
  28. http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/
  29. http://www.openssl.org/
  30. http://www.debian.org/
  31. http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/
  32. http://www.gnu.org/software/libidn/
  33. http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/
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