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The generated build system (configure, every Makefile.in, config.h.in, ltmain.sh, config.guess/sub, the aux scripts) was committed so a bare git clone could build without autotools. Nothing downstream relied on the committed copies: CI runs autoreconf -fi, Debian regenerates via dh_autoreconf, and the release tarball is built by make dist, which regenerates them regardless. The only cost was a recurring footgun: a stale Makefile.in after a *_SOURCES edit silently broke the plain build (undefined reference to cache_selftests), and CI could not catch it. Treat them as build products. They are now .gitignored and regenerated from configure.ac/Makefile.am by the new ./bootstrap (autoreconf -fi), and shipped only inside make dist tarballs so tarball users still need no autotools. build.sh is a one-shot wrapper (bootstrap + configure + make) that runs configure via /bin/sh, so it survives a noexec source tree. Both scripts join EXTRA_DIST. INSTALL.Linux, README.md and AGENTS.md document the git flow: ./bootstrap before ./configure, autotools required for a git build. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Xavier Roche <roche@httrack.com>
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HTTrack Website Copier - Install notes
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On most systems (including GNU/Linux), installing can be easily achieved using the following command:
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./configure && make && make install
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-or- (if not compiling as root)
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./configure --prefix=$HOME && make && make install
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Building from a git checkout (not a release tarball) first needs the build
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system regenerated, which requires autoconf, automake and libtool:
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./bootstrap
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./configure && make && make install
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You can also use the one-shot wrapper, which runs bootstrap, configure and make
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(extra arguments are passed to configure):
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./build.sh --prefix=$HOME
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See also the INSTALL generic help file.
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