I got sick of typing in the same commands over and over, so borrowed

autogen.sh from gnome cvs...  Also corrected some info in HACKING.

-Shawn

HACKING

@@ -11,20 +11,40 @@ These should be available by ftp from prep.ai.mit.edu or any of the
 fine GNU mirrors.  Beta software can be found at alpha.gnu.org.
 
 If you are accessing gtk+ via CVS, then you will need to take several
-steps to get it to compile.  These are:
+steps to get it to compile.  You can do all these steps at once
+by running:
 
-	cvsroot/gtk+# aclocal; automake; autoconf
+        cvsroot/gtk+# ./autogen.sh
+   
+Basically this does the following for you:
+
+  	cvsroot/gtk+# aclocal; automake; autoconf
         cvsroot/gtk+/glib# aclocal; automake; autoconf
 
-The "configure" scripts will not exist until you take these steps.
-you only need to call "configure" i cvsroot/gtk+ as the one in
-glib will be invoked automatically.
+        The above commands create the "configure" script.  Now you
+	can run the configure script in cvsroot/gtk+ to create all
+	the Makefiles.  You only need to call "configure" in cvsroot/gtk+ 
+	as the one in glib will be invoked automatically.
 
-Before running configure, make sure you have libtool in your path
+Before running autogen.sh or configure, make sure you have libtool 
+in your path.  
+
+Note that autogen.sh runs configure for you.  If you wish to pass
+options like --prefix=/usr to configure you can give those options
+to autogen.sh and they will be passed on to configure.
+
+If at all possible, please use CVS to get the latest development version of
+gtk+.  You can do the following to get gtk+ from cvs:
+
+   $ export CVSROOT=':pserver:anonymous@cvs.gimp.org:/debian/home/gnomecvs'
+   $ cvs login
+     (there is no password, just hit return)
+   $ cvs -z9 checkout gtk+
 
 Please submit patches to the gtk-list@redhat.com mailing list (you must
 subscribe before you post, e-mail gtk-list-request@redhat.com with a
-subject of "subscribe"). All kinds of contributions are accepted. If at
-all possible, please use CVS to get the latest development version of
-gtk+; the README file has the CVSROOT information. 
+subject of "subscribe"). All kinds of contributions are accepted.
+Patches that you wish to go into the distribution should also be uploaded 
+to ftp://ftp.gimp.org/incoming.  Follow the rules there for naming your
+patches. 
 

autogen.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# Run this to generate all the initial makefiles, etc.
+
+DIE=0
+
+(autoconf --version) < /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1 || {
+	echo
+	echo "You must have autoconf installed to compile GTK+."
+	echo "Download the appropriate package for your distribution,"
+	echo "or get the source tarball at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/"
+	DIE=1
+}
+
+(libtool --version) < /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1 || {
+	echo
+	echo "You must have libtool installed to compile GTK+."
+	echo "Get ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool-1.0h.tar.gz"
+	echo "(or a newer version if it is available)"
+	DIE=1
+}
+
+(automake --version) < /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1 || {
+	echo
+	echo "You must have automake installed to compile GTK+."
+	echo "Get ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/home/tromey/automake-1.2d.tar.gz"
+	echo "(or a newer version if it is available)"
+	DIE=1
+}
+
+if test "$DIE" -eq 1; then
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+(test -d gtk && test -d glib) || {
+	echo "You must run this script in the top-level GTK+ directory"
+	exit 1
+}
+
+if test -z "$*"; then
+	echo "I am going to run ./configure with no arguments - if you wish "
+        echo "to pass any to it, please specify them on the $0 command line."
+fi
+
+for i in glib .
+do 
+  echo processing $i
+  (cd $i; aclocal; automake; autoconf)
+done
+./configure "$@"
+
+echo 
+echo "Now type 'make' to compile GTK+."