On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 4:49 PM, John J. Boyer <johnjboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > As a compromise, the svn version could have only autogen and the featured > tarball could have configure, etc. But this would have to be noted in > the README file. > This is standard. When you check out a project from SVN, you are expected to bootstrap it using the included autogen.sh script. When the tarball is distributed, it is done using the Makefile's "dist" target. This makes a pre-bootstrapped tarball with the configure script so the user does not need any autotool-related dependencies like automake and autoconf. For a description of the software and to download it go to http://www.jjb-software.com