This module contains various files needed to bootstrap MATE modules built from GIT. It contains the following components: 1. A common "autogen.sh" script that can be used to configure a source directory checked out from GIT. 2. Some commonly used macros (quite a small set these days -- macros should be packaged with their respective modules). 3. Some files used to build user documentation. To make use of the common autogen script, create a stub autogen.sh script in your module that looks something like this: ---- Cut Here ---- #!/bin/sh srcdir=`basename $0` [ -z "$srcdir" ] && srcdir=. PKG_NAME=mypackage REQUIRED_AUTOMAKE_VERSION=1.7 if [ ! -f "$srcdir/somefile-that-is-only-in-mypackage" ]; then echo "$srcdir doesn't look like source directory for $PKG_NAME" >&2 exit 1 fi . mate-autogen ---- Cut Here ---- Then put the following in your configure.ac or configure.in file: MATE_COMMON_INIT This macro is equivalent to the following two lines (which you can use instead if you don't want to depend on mate-common macros): AC_SUBST([ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS], ["\${ACLOCAL_FLAGS}"]) Or if you are using the AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR macro: AC_SUBST([ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS], ["-I $ac_macro_dir \${ACLOCAL_FLAGS}"]) This will make sure that autoconf macros will be found when you rebuild the package without rerunning autogen.sh.