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+++ b/bootstrap	Tue Sep 18 15:32:50 2012 -0700
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+#! /bin/sh
+# bootstrap
+# Run this to generate all the initial makefiles, etc.
+
+set -e
+
+## Use --foreign since we auto-generate the AUTHORS file and the default
+## --gnu strictness level doesn't like it if the AUTHORS file is missing.
+
+AUTOMAKE="automake --foreign --warnings=no-portability"
+export AUTOMAKE
+
+## Check for files that automake --gnu would normally look for, except
+## AUTHORS, which we autogenerate from the documentation files along with
+## building the rest of Octave, and INSTALL, which is linked from
+## gnulib/doc/INSTALL by the bootstrap script.
+
+for f in NEWS README COPYING; do
+  if ! test -f $f; then
+    echo "required file $f is missing" 2>&1
+    exit 1
+  fi
+done
+
+echo "generating source lists for liboctave/operators/module.mk..."
+
+(cd liboctave/operators; ./config-ops.sh)
+
+echo "generating doc/interpreter/images.mk..."
+
+(cd doc/interpreter; ./config-images.sh)
+
+echo "generating libinterp/dldfcn/module.mk..."
+
+(cd libinterp/dldfcn; ./config-module.sh)
+
+echo "bootstrapping..."
+
+build-aux/bootstrap_gnulib "$@"
+
+## G77 is obsolete, but it is still the first option in the autoconf Fortran
+## macros.  We should avoid it, because mixing old versions of g77 with modern
+## gcc and g++ causes trouble.  The following will make it harder (but not
+## impossible) for users to make this mistake.
+##
+## FIXME -- we should really work to fix autoconf so that it prefers gfortran
+## over g77 even when searching for a Fortran 77 compiler.
+
+echo "replacing all occurrences of g77 with gfortran in configure script..."
+
+sed 's/g77/gfortran/g' configure > configure.t
+mv configure.t configure
+chmod 755 configure