_ _ ____ _ ___| | | | _ \| | / __| | | | |_) | | | (__| |_| | _ <| |___ \___|\___/|_| \_\_____| CVS-INFO This file is only present in the CVS - never in release archives. It contains information about other files and things that the CVS repository keeps in its inner sanctum. Use autoconf 2.50 and no earlier. Also, try having automake 1.5 and libtool 1.4.1 at least. You will need perl to generate the src/hugehelp.c file. The file src/hugehelp.c.cvs is a one-shot file that you can rename to src/hugehelp.c if you really can't generate the true file yourself! CHANGES.0 contains ancient changes. memanalyze.pl is for analyzing the output generated by curl if -DMALLOCDEBUG is used when compiling buildconf builds the makefiles and configure stuff Makefile.dist is included as the root Makefile in distribution archives perl/contrib/ is a subdirectory with various perl scripts java/ is a subdirectory with the Java interface to libcurl To build after having extracted everything from CVS, do this: ./buildconf ./configure make