Re: Automatic debug symbol generation

[JRS]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:01:20PM -0700, Jason Spence wrote: 
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 07:33:47AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: 
> > Just get the git tree here:
> > 
> >   git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/automake.git
> >   cd automake
> >   ./bootstrap
> > 
> > and then get hacking.  README, tests/README contain information about
> > testing, the HACKING file contains information on what is requires for
> > patches to be applicable.  And yes, we'd prefer full test exposure for
> > all new features.
> 
> Ah, that was what I needed to have.  Thanks.

Hmm.  Automake from the tree needs autoconf from the tree.  I set it
up and installed it with --prefix=$HOME and I have $HOME/bin prepended
to my path, but automake's configure doesn't want to recognize that
fact.  Is there a recipe for building the whole autotools suite from
the source tree?