wxAutohacks wxAutohacks is a way of ensuring the configure script remains consistent between developer commits. Previous releases include a build/aclocal_include which has now been moved into the wxWidgets build/aclocal directory. At the moment, it is intended to be copied and or symlinked into a wxWidgets source tree. For example, assume you have wxWidgets checked out in the /home/myname/wxCVS/wxWidgets/ path. Then from /home/myname/wxCVS do this: cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.wxwidgets.org:/pack/cvsroots/wxwidgets checkout wxAutohacks You will now have wxAutohacks in /home/myname/wxCVS/wxAutohacks/. Now go into the wxWidgets build (/home/myname/wxCVS/wxWidgets/build/) and do this: ln -s ../../wxAutohacks/build/autoconf_prepend-include . From now on from the root of your wxWidgets source tree when you do this: make -f build/autogen.mk you will also build an autoconf.m4f file which will ensure the configure script stays consistent. Alternatively you can do this: make -f build/autogen.mk AUTOHACKS_PREPEND_INCLUDE_DIR=../wxAutohacks/build/autoconf_prepend-include