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stevengj committed Jan 25, 2017
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./configure --enable-maintainer-mode [OTHER CONFIGURE FLAGS]

Alternatively, you can run

sh mkdist.sh

which will run the entire bootstrapping process and generate
.tar.gz files similar to those for official releases.

CONTACTS
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Advanced users and FFTW maintainers can obtain code from github and
run the generation process themselves. This is a long process that
requires special tools. See README for details.
requires special tools. See README for details. (Summary: in
addition to the usual Unix developer software, you need [GNU
autotools](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Build_System) and
[OCaml](http://www.ocaml.org/). Then you can run `sh mkdist.sh`
to compile FFTW and generate `.tar.gz` files similar to the official
releases.)

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