3.4.1 Running ./autogen.sh

After you unpack the tarball (or download the Git repository), the contents of your top source directory should be similar to the current source tree listed at http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=lilypond.git;a=tree.

Next, you need to create the generated files; enter the following command from your top source directory:

./autogen.sh

This will:

  1. generate a number of files and directories to aid configuration, such as ‘configure’, ‘README.txt’, etc.
  2. automatically run the ./configure command.

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