Building gnome-pilot

[Colin Williams <lackita gmail com>]

Hey,

I thought I'd try to do a bit of development work on gnome-pilot, as I
have a palm Z22 and the current release has some features missing that
I really needed.  Anyway, I'm trying to get the development version
and build it, and I've run into several problems.  Some of these may
be my inexperience with the tools, but I was hoping somebody could
give me a hand.

First, I tried to clone the git repository, using the command on the
site, and I got the following:

$ git clone git://git.gnome.org/gnome-pilot/
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/lackita/Documents/gnome-pilot/.git/
git.gnome.org[0: 209.132.180.173]: errno=Connection timed out
fatal: unable to connect a socket (Connection timed out)

Not a big deal, I just switched the protocol to http and it worked
fine.  My first question: Was there some configuration problem I
needed to fix with git, is the command on the site incorrect, or is
there a configuration error with the git repository?

Second, I tried to build the code.  To my surprise, I could not find a
configure file.  I also could not find an INSTALL file, which was my
fallback.  The README appears to be woefully out of date (it still had
me fetching from the cvs repository at cvs.gnu-designs.com) but ended
up suggesting autogen.sh which is what I needed to get moving.  I
think this was my own inexperience for the most part, but the README
could be organized a little better.

Colin