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+# -*- html -*-
+# $Id$
+
+#use wml::layout::default title="DUNE - Installation Notes"
+
+<h1>Installation Notes</h1>
+
+<h2>Grids with Dune support</h2>
+<p>
+The following external grids support the DUNE Grid interface:
+<p>
+<table>
+<tbody>
+<tr><td>ALBERTA</td><td>1.2</td><td><a href="http://www.alberta-fem.de/">http://www.alberta-fem.de/</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>ALUGrid</td><td>0.4</td><td><a href="http://www.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de/IAM/Research/alugrid/">http://www.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de/IAM/Research/alugrid/</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>UG (non-free licence)</td><td></td><td><a href="http://sit.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/~ug/">http://sit.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/~ug/</a></td></tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+<p>
+Within the DUNE source tree OneDGrid, SGrid and YaspGrid are
+available.
+</p>
+
+<h2>External Packages needed by the Grids</h2>
+
+<h3>ALBERTA Grid</h3>
+<p>
+The following packages are mandatory to compile ALBERTA:
+</p>
+<dl>
+<dt>Fortran 77</dt><dd>compiler, e.&nbsp;g. g77</dd>
+<dt>OpenGL</dt><dd>  A free implementation is available from
+        <a href="http://www.mesa3d.org/">http://www.mesa3d.org/</a></dd>
+<dt>BLAS</dt><dd><p>&quot;Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms&quot;</p>
+<p>
+        This often comes as a package with Linux (for Debian sarge it
+        is called atlas3 and has to be installed together with the
+        header package atlas3-headers).
+</p><p>
+	If it does not come with your distribution you can get it from
+	http://math-atlas.sourceforge.net
+</p></dd>
+</dl>
+<p>
+For optional packages see the README file of ALBERTA
+</p>
+
+<h3>ALUGrid</h3>
+<p>
+There are no mandatory packages for ALUGrid.
+</p><p>
+For optional packages see the README file of ALUGRID.
+</p>
+<h3>UGGrid</h3>
+<p>
+There are no mandatory packages for UGGrid.
+</p>
+<p>
+You can (but you don't have to) create UGGrid objects from AmiraMesh files.
+For this you'll need the <a href="http://www.amiravis.com/resources/Ext411-01-libamiramesh/index.html">AmiraMesh</a> library.
+</p>
+
+<h2>Compilation and Installation of the External Grids</h2>
+
+<h3>ALBERTA</h3>
+<ol>
+<li>Download at least version 1.2 of ALBERTA from the ALBERTA homepage
+  <a href="http://www.alberta-fem.de">http://www.alberta-fem.de</a> </li>
+
+<li><p>Unpack it in a directory</p>
+	   <kbd>tar xzf alberta-1.2.tar.gz</kbd>
+    <p>and move to that directory</p>
+	<kbd>cd alberta-1.2</kbd>
+</li>
+<li><p>Configure ALBERTA, e. g.</p>
+    <kbd>   ./configure --prefix=/directory/to/install/alberta/to \\
+       --with-blas-name=blas-3 --disable-shared \\
+       CXX=g++-3.4 CC=gcc-3.4
+</kbd>
+<p>
+    With --prefix the absolute path of the directory we install to has
+    to given, --with-blas-name we tell configure the name of our BLAS
+    library.
+</p><p>
+    IMPORTANT!! Always use the --disable-shared option as shared
+    linking is broken in version 1.2!!
+</p><p>
+    With the variable CC and CXX we tell configure the C and C++
+    compiler and linker to use. These have to be the same compilers
+    and linkers you will use to compile DUNE!!
+</p>
+   <p> For more information and additional options see</p>
+    <kbd>./configure --help</kbd>
+</li>
+
+<li><p>Compile ALBERTA with</p> <kbd>make</kbd></li>
+
+<li> <p>Install ALBERTA with</p> <kbd>make install</kbd></li>
+</ol>
+
+<h3>ALUGrid</h3>
+<ol>
+<li>Download the latest version of ALUGrid from the <a href="http://www.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de/IAM/Research/alugrid/">ALUGrid homepage</a>.</li>
+<li><p>Unpack it in a directory</p>
+	   <kbd>tar xzf ALUGrid-0.x.tar.gz</kbd>
+    <p>and move to that directory</p>
+<kbd>
+	cd ALUGrid-0.x 
+</kbd>
+    <p>and read the README file first.</p>
+  </li>
+
+<li><p>Configure ALUGrid, e. g.</p>
+<kbd>
+       ./configure --prefix=/directory/to/install/ALUGrid/to \\
+       CXX=g++-3.4 CC=gcc-3.4
+</kbd>
+<p>for the sequential use of ALUGrid.</p>
+<p>
+    With --prefix the absolute path of the directory we install to has
+    to be given. If no --prefix given, ALUGrid is installed into the
+    directory where it was unpacked.
+</p>
+<p>
+    With the variable CC and CXX we tell configure the C and C++
+    compiler and linker to use. These have to be the same compilers
+    and linkers you will use to compile DUNE!!
+</p>
+<p>
+    If you want to use the parallel version of ALUGrid one has to
+    proceed as follows. To compile the library you need a valid MPI version
+    installed. The easiest way to compile the parallel version is to use
+    the MPI compiler script (i.e. mpiCC or mpicxx) by calling configure with CXX="mpicxx" for
+    example. Optionally you can use the DUNE mpi-config tool. 
+    As the compiler used to compile your mpi version might differ from 
+    the version needed for DUNE instead of
+    specify mpi as the compiler we provide the include path and linker
+    path of MPI.
+</p>
+<p>
+    In order to retrieve the CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS necessary for MPI,
+    dune-common offers a script <i>dune-common/bin/mpi-config</i>:
+</p>
+<kbd>
+       Usage: mpi-config [OPTIONS] [LIBRARIES]
+       Options:
+        [--mpicc[=COMPILER]]
+        [--disable-cxx]
+        [--verbose]
+        [--version]
+        [--mpiversion]
+        [--libs]
+        [--cflags]
+</kbd>
+<p>
+     mpi-config calls the MPI compiler and tries to extract the
+	 parameters. One can specify which MPI compiler to use, by setting
+	 the $MPICC environment variable or by supplying the
+	 --mpicc=<i>MPICOMPILER</i> option.
+</p>
+<p>
+     Using mpi-config one can pass the approriate CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS
+     to configure. We suppose that dune-common/bin is in your path
+     (for bash you can do this with: export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/dune/modules/dune-common/bin.
+</p>
+<p>
+     E. g. for the MPI compiler <i>/opt/foo-mpi/bin/mpicc</i> (for the
+     default MPI compiler just skip the --mpicc=/opt/foo-mpi/bin/mpicc
+     options):
+</p>
+<kbd>
+       ./configure --prefix=/directory/to/install/ALUGrid/to \\
+       CXX=g++-3.4 CC=gcc-3.4 \\
+       CPPFLAGS="`mpi-config --cflags --disable-cxx --mpicc=/opt/foo-mpi/bin/mpicc`" \\
+       LDFLAGS="`mpi-config --libs --disable-cxx --mpicc=/opt/foo-mpi/bin/mpicc`"
+</kbd>
+<p>
+    For further information and additional options see
+    </p><kbd>./configure --help</kbd>
+</li>
+<li><p>Compile ALUGrid with</p> <kbd>make</kbd></li>
+<li><p>Install ALUGrid with</p> <kbd>make install</kbd></li>
+</ol>
+<h3>UGGrid</h3>
+
+<ol>
+<li>
+<p>
+Get the UG library.  If you intend to use the release 1.0 of DUNE you can
+download to appropriate UG library at
+<a href="http://sit.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/~ug">http://sit.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/~ug</a>. 
+For more recent versions of DUNE you will need a newer UG.
+Please ask on the mailing list for details.
+</p>
+<li>Unpack the tarball and move into the UG source tree.
+    <pre>
+tar zxvf UG-3.9.1.tar.gz
+cd UG-3.9.1
+    </pre>
+</li>
+<li><p>Build the UG make system</p>
+<kbd>
+    ./configure --prefix=my_favourite_ug_installation_path --enable-dune CC=g++
+</kbd>
+        <ul>
+          <li>
+   <tt>--prefix</tt> determines the absolute path of the directory we install to.
+          </li>
+          <li>
+   <tt>--enable-dune</tt> enables special features needed by Dune.
+          </li>
+          <li>
+    CC=g++ tells the build system to compile everything as C++,
+    even though it is technically C.    This is necessary when
+    using UG through the DUNE interface. Don't forget that the 
+    compiler has to be binary-compatible with the one you're using for Dune.
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+        <p>Compile UG with</p>
+        <kbd> make</kbd>
+</li>
+<li><p>Install UG with</p> <kbd>make install</kbd></li>
+</ol>
+
+<h2>Installation of DUNE modules</h2>
+<ol>
+<li><p>Download DUNE modules</p>
+<p>
+    See <a
+    href="http://dune-project.org/download.html">Download
+    Section</a>
+    section for more details.
+</p>
+<p>
+When using the unstable version via svn, you might be interested in
+the <a href="http://dune-project.org/svn.html">DUNE SVN Developer
+Info</a> section.
+</p>
+<p>
+When using the svn version, you will have to have further packages
+installled, but there are no tests for these, because they are needed
+during the first build stage, by autogen.sh.
+</p>
+<ul>
+  <li>automake in version &ge; 1.5</li>
+  <li>autoconf in version &ge; 2.50</li>
+  <li>libtool</li>
+  <li>pkg-config</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li> <p>Building all DUNE modules</p>
+<p>
+ Check out all dune modules into same directory (say dune-home)
+</p>
+<p>
+ Run dunecontrol script available in the base module dune-common/bin. This will run autogen.sh, configure and make for each module.
+</p>
+<kbd>./dune-common/bin/dunecontrol all</kbd>
+<p>
+ Read the <a
+ href="http://dune-project.org/doc/buildsystem/buildsystem.pdf">DUNE
+ Build System Howto</a> section for more details.
+</p>
+</li>
+<li> <p>Building a specific DUNE module (and its dependent modules)</p>
+<p> Run dunecontrol script
+<kbd>./dune-common/bin/dunecontrol --module=module_name all</kbd>
+where module_name is the name of that particular module given in the dune.module file
+</p>
+<p> Read <a href="http://dune-project.org/dunemodule.html">Maintaining new Dune modules and applications</a> section for more details.
+</p>
+</li>
+<li> <p>Building using certain configure options</p>
+<p> Run dunecontrol script
+<kbd>./dune-common/bin/dunecontrol --opts=/path_to/file.opts --module=module_name all</kbd>
+where file.opts is the name of the file with configure options
+specified (you can find an <a href="example.opts">example.opts</a>
+file in the dune-common/doc directory)
+</p>
+
+<p>Read <a href="http://dune-project.org/dunemodule.html">Maintaining new Dune modules and applications</a> section for more details.
+</p>
+<p> <a
+href="http://dune-project.org/doc/buildsystem/buildsystem.pdf">DUNE
+Build System Howto</a> will also give you an excellent introduction to
+the build system and how to create new modules/projects your own.
+</p>
+</li>
+</ol>
+<h2>Creating your own DUNE project module</h2>
+<p>
+You can create your own dune project module by using the duneproject script available in dune-common/bin directory.
+Running the script will create a directory with supporting files (configure.ac ,Makefile.am etc.) and a sample .cc file.
+After creating the module you can build this as explained above under "Building a specific DUNE module".
+</p>
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 <h1>Installation Notes</h1>
 
-<h2>Grids with Dune support</h2>
-<p>
-The following external grids support the DUNE Grid interface:
-<p>
-<table>
-<tbody>
-<tr><td>ALBERTA</td><td>1.2</td><td><a href="http://www.alberta-fem.de/">http://www.alberta-fem.de/</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td>ALUGrid</td><td>0.4</td><td><a href="http://www.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de/IAM/Research/alugrid/">http://www.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de/IAM/Research/alugrid/</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td>UG (non-free licence)</td><td></td><td><a href="http://sit.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/~ug/">http://sit.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/~ug/</a></td></tr>
-</tbody>
-</table>
-<p>
-Within the DUNE source tree OneDGrid, SGrid and YaspGrid are
-available.
-</p>
-
-<h2>External Packages needed by the Grids</h2>
+<h2>Dependencies</h2>
 
-<h3>ALBERTA Grid</h3>
 <p>
-The following packages are mandatory to compile ALBERTA:
+In order to build DUNE you need at least the following software:
 </p>
-<dl>
-<dt>Fortran 77</dt><dd>compiler, e.&nbsp;g. g77</dd>
-<dt>OpenGL</dt><dd>  A free implementation is available from
-        <a href="http://www.mesa3d.org/">http://www.mesa3d.org/</a></dd>
-<dt>BLAS</dt><dd><p>&quot;Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms&quot;</p>
-<p>
-        This often comes as a package with Linux (for Debian sarge it
-        is called atlas3 and has to be installed together with the
-        header package atlas3-headers).
-</p><p>
-	If it does not come with your distribution you can get it from
-	http://math-atlas.sourceforge.net
-</p></dd>
-</dl>
+<ul>
+<li>a standard compliant C++ compiler
+[tested are g++ (&gt;= 3.4.1) and icc (7.0, 8.0 and 9.0)]</li>
+<li>pkg-config</li>
+</ul>
 <p>
-For optional packages see the README file of ALBERTA
+The following software is recommend but optional:
 </p>
-
-<h3>ALUGrid</h3>
+<ul>
+<li>MPI (either OpenMPI, lam, or mpich suffice)</li>
+</ul>
 <p>
-There are no mandatory packages for ALUGrid.
-</p><p>
-For optional packages see the README file of ALUGRID.
+When building the development version of DUNE you will also need
 </p>
-<h3>UGGrid</h3>
+<ul>
+<li>automake (&gt;= 1.5)</li>
+<li>autoconf (&gt;= 2.50)</li>
+<li>libtool</li>
+</ul>
 <p>
-There are no mandatory packages for UGGrid.
-</p>
+This will provide you with the core DUNE features.</p>
 <p>
-You can (but you don't have to) create UGGrid objects from AmiraMesh files.
-For this you'll need the <a href="http://www.amiravis.com/resources/Ext411-01-libamiramesh/index.html">AmiraMesh</a> library.
+Some DUNE modules might support further software. Using this software
+is optional. The dune-grid module for example support different
+external grid managers like Albert or UG; these have to be downloaded
+separately. For a list of supported contrib software packages and
+their installation see the
+<a href="contrib-software.html">Contrib Software Installation Notes</a>.
 </p>
 
-<h2>Compilation and Installation of the External Grids</h2>
-
-<h3>ALBERTA</h3>
-<ol>
-<li>Download at least version 1.2 of ALBERTA from the ALBERTA homepage
-  <a href="http://www.alberta-fem.de">http://www.alberta-fem.de</a> </li>
+<h2>Installing the core DUNE modules</h2>
 
-<li><p>Unpack it in a directory</p>
-	   <kbd>tar xzf alberta-1.2.tar.gz</kbd>
-    <p>and move to that directory</p>
-	<kbd>cd alberta-1.2</kbd>
-</li>
-<li><p>Configure ALBERTA, e. g.</p>
-    <kbd>   ./configure --prefix=/directory/to/install/alberta/to \\
-       --with-blas-name=blas-3 --disable-shared \\
-       CXX=g++-3.4 CC=gcc-3.4
-</kbd>
 <p>
-    With --prefix the absolute path of the directory we install to has
-    to given, --with-blas-name we tell configure the name of our BLAS
-    library.
-</p><p>
-    IMPORTANT!! Always use the --disable-shared option as shared
-    linking is broken in version 1.2!!
-</p><p>
-    With the variable CC and CXX we tell configure the C and C++
-    compiler and linker to use. These have to be the same compilers
-    and linkers you will use to compile DUNE!!
+Suppose you have downloaded all DUNE modules of interest to your
+computer and extracted then in one common directory. See the <a
+href="$(ROOT)/download.html">download</a> section
+for a list of available modules. 
 </p>
-   <p> For more information and additional options see</p>
-    <kbd>./configure --help</kbd>
-</li>
-
-<li><p>Compile ALBERTA with</p> <kbd>make</kbd></li>
-
-<li> <p>Install ALBERTA with</p> <kbd>make install</kbd></li>
-</ol>
-
-<h3>ALUGrid</h3>
-<ol>
-<li>Download the latest version of ALUGrid from the <a href="http://www.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de/IAM/Research/alugrid/">ALUGrid homepage</a>.</li>
-<li><p>Unpack it in a directory</p>
-	   <kbd>tar xzf ALUGrid-0.x.tar.gz</kbd>
-    <p>and move to that directory</p>
-<kbd>
-	cd ALUGrid-0.x 
-</kbd>
-    <p>and read the README file first.</p>
-  </li>
-
-<li><p>Configure ALUGrid, e. g.</p>
-<kbd>
-       ./configure --prefix=/directory/to/install/ALUGrid/to \\
-       CXX=g++-3.4 CC=gcc-3.4
-</kbd>
-<p>for the sequential use of ALUGrid.</p>
 <p>
-    With --prefix the absolute path of the directory we install to has
-    to be given. If no --prefix given, ALUGrid is installed into the
-    directory where it was unpacked.
+To compile the modules DUNE has to check several components of
+your system and whether prerequisites within the modules are met. For
+the ease of users we have designed a custom build system on top of the
+automake tools. Run
 </p>
+<kbd>
+  ./dune-common/bin/dunecontrol all
+</kbd>
 <p>
-    With the variable CC and CXX we tell configure the C and C++
-    compiler and linker to use. These have to be the same compilers
-    and linkers you will use to compile DUNE!!
+to commence those tests and build all modules you have
+downloaded. Don't worry about messages telling you that libraries are
+missing: they are only needed for grid-self-checks we need for
+developing. 
 </p>
 <p>
-    If you want to use the parallel version of ALUGrid one has to
-    proceed as follows. To compile the library you need a valid MPI version
-    installed. The easiest way to compile the parallel version is to use
-    the MPI compiler script (i.e. mpiCC or mpicxx) by calling configure with CXX="mpicxx" for
-    example. Optionally you can use the DUNE mpi-config tool. 
-    As the compiler used to compile your mpi version might differ from 
-    the version needed for DUNE instead of
-    specify mpi as the compiler we provide the include path and linker
-    path of MPI.
+You can customize the build to your specific needs by using an options file
+(see below)
 </p>
+<kbd>
+  ./dune-common/bin/dunecontrol --opts=/path_to/file.opts
+</kbd>
 <p>
-    In order to retrieve the CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS necessary for MPI,
-    dune-common offers a script <i>dune-common/bin/mpi-config</i>:
+If you did not tell dunecontrol to install with an options file you
+need to run
 </p>
 <kbd>
-       Usage: mpi-config [OPTIONS] [LIBRARIES]
-       Options:
-        [--mpicc[=COMPILER]]
-        [--disable-cxx]
-        [--verbose]
-        [--version]
-        [--mpiversion]
-        [--libs]
-        [--cflags]
+  ./dune-common/bin/dunecontrol make install
 </kbd>
 <p>
-     mpi-config calls the MPI compiler and tries to extract the
-	 parameters. One can specify which MPI compiler to use, by setting
-	 the $MPICC environment variable or by supplying the
-	 --mpicc=<i>MPICOMPILER</i> option.
+to install DUNE (you may need root-permissions for the install
+part depending on the prefix set)
 </p>
 <p>
-     Using mpi-config one can pass the approriate CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS
-     to configure. We suppose that dune-common/bin is in your path
-     (for bash you can do this with: export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/dune/modules/dune-common/bin.
+A more comprehensive introduction to the build system can be found in
+the <a href="buildsystem/buildsystem.pdf">Dune Build System Howto</a>.
 </p>
+
+<h2>Passing options to the build process</h2>
+
 <p>
-     E. g. for the MPI compiler <i>/opt/foo-mpi/bin/mpicc</i> (for the
-     default MPI compiler just skip the --mpicc=/opt/foo-mpi/bin/mpicc
-     options):
+Using the dunecontrol script the following atomic commands can be
+executed:
 </p>
-<kbd>
-       ./configure --prefix=/directory/to/install/ALUGrid/to \\
-       CXX=g++-3.4 CC=gcc-3.4 \\
-       CPPFLAGS="`mpi-config --cflags --disable-cxx --mpicc=/opt/foo-mpi/bin/mpicc`" \\
-       LDFLAGS="`mpi-config --libs --disable-cxx --mpicc=/opt/foo-mpi/bin/mpicc`"
-</kbd>
-<p>
-    For further information and additional options see
-    </p><kbd>./configure --help</kbd>
+<ul>
+<li>
+autogen (runs autogen in each module, only needed when downloaded
+via svn)
 </li>
-<li><p>Compile ALUGrid with</p> <kbd>make</kbd></li>
-<li><p>Install ALUGrid with</p> <kbd>make install</kbd></li>
-</ol>
-<h3>UGGrid</h3>
-
-<ol>
 <li>
-<p>
-Get the UG library.  If you intend to use the release 1.0 of DUNE you can
-download to appropriate UG library at
-<a href="http://sit.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/~ug">http://sit.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/~ug</a>. 
-For more recent versions of DUNE you will need a newer UG.
-Please ask on the mailing list for details.
-</p>
-<li>Unpack the tarball and move into the UG source tree.
-    <pre>
-tar zxvf UG-3.9.1.tar.gz
-cd UG-3.9.1
-    </pre>
+configure (runs the configure tests for each module
 </li>
-<li><p>Build the UG make system</p>
-<kbd>
-    ./configure --prefix=my_favourite_ug_installation_path --enable-dune CC=g++
-</kbd>
-        <ul>
-          <li>
-   <tt>--prefix</tt> determines the absolute path of the directory we install to.
-          </li>
-          <li>
-   <tt>--enable-dune</tt> enables special features needed by Dune.
-          </li>
-          <li>
-    CC=g++ tells the build system to compile everything as C++,
-    even though it is technically C.    This is necessary when
-    using UG through the DUNE interface. Don't forget that the 
-    compiler has to be binary-compatible with the one you're using for Dune.
+<li>
+exec (executes a command in each module directory)
 </li>
-</ul>
+<li>
+make (runs make for each module)
 </li>
 <li>
-        <p>Compile UG with</p>
-        <kbd> make</kbd>
+update (updates the svn version)
 </li>
-<li><p>Install UG with</p> <kbd>make install</kbd></li>
-</ol>
-
-<h2>Installation of DUNE modules</h2>
-<ol>
-<li><p>Download DUNE modules</p>
+</ul>
 <p>
-    See <a
-    href="http://dune-project.org/download.html">Download
-    Section</a>
-    section for more details.
+The composite command all simply runs autogen, configure and make for
+each module.
 </p>
 <p>
-When using the unstable version via svn, you might be interested in
-the <a href="http://dune-project.org/svn.html">DUNE SVN Developer
-Info</a> section.
+As it is often not convenient (and for the target all impossible) to
+specify the options for each command as parameters after the call, one
+can pass the options via file specified by the <tt>--opts=&lt;file&gt;</tt>
+option. For each atomic command one specify the options via a ine
 </p>
+<kbd>
+&lt;COMMANY_UPPERCASE&gt;_FLAGS=&lt;flags&gt; # e.g.: MAKE_FLAGS=install
+</kbd>
 <p>
-When using the svn version, you will have to have further packages
-installled, but there are no tests for these, because they are needed
-during the first build stage, by autogen.sh.
+The available options for make and svn are the natural ones. The
+configure commands available can be found by issuing
 </p>
-<ul>
-  <li>automake in version &ge; 1.5</li>
-  <li>autoconf in version &ge; 2.50</li>
-  <li>libtool</li>
-  <li>pkg-config</li>
-</ul>
-</li>
-<li> <p>Building all DUNE modules</p>
+<kbd>
+dunecontrol --only=dune-common configure --help
+</kbd>
 <p>
- Check out all dune modules into same directory (say dune-home)
+and for autogen by
 </p>
+<kbd>
+dunecontrol --only=dune-common autogen --help
+</kbd>
 <p>
- Run dunecontrol script available in the base module dune-common/bin. This will run autogen.sh, configure and make for each module.
+(In the svn version this has to be calles after running autogen.)
 </p>
-<kbd>./dune-common/bin/dunecontrol all</kbd>
 <p>
- Read the <a
- href="http://dune-project.org/doc/buildsystem/buildsystem.pdf">DUNE
- Build System Howto</a> section for more details.
-</p>
-</li>
-<li> <p>Building a specific DUNE module (and its dependent modules)</p>
-<p> Run dunecontrol script
-<kbd>./dune-common/bin/dunecontrol --module=module_name all</kbd>
-where module_name is the name of that particular module given in the dune.module file
-</p>
-<p> Read <a href="http://dune-project.org/dunemodule.html">Maintaining new Dune modules and applications</a> section for more details.
-</p>
-</li>
-<li> <p>Building using certain configure options</p>
-<p> Run dunecontrol script
-<kbd>./dune-common/bin/dunecontrol --opts=/path_to/file.opts --module=module_name all</kbd>
-where file.opts is the name of the file with configure options
-specified (you can find an <a href="example.opts">example.opts</a>
-file in the dune-common/doc directory)
+An example of an options file is 
 </p>
+<kbd>
+  # use a special compiler (g++ version 3.4) and install to a custom
+  # directory, default is /usr/local/bin
+  CONFIGURE_FLAGS="CXX=g++-3.4 --prefix='/tmp/Hu Hu'"
+  # Set the default target of make to install. Now the call above will
+  # not just build the DUNE modules but also install it
+  MAKE_FLAGS=install
+  # The default versions of automake and autogen are not sufficient
+  # therefore we need to specify what versions to use
+  AUTOGEN_FLAGS="--ac=2.59 --am=1.9"
+</kbd>
 
-<p>Read <a href="http://dune-project.org/dunemodule.html">Maintaining new Dune modules and applications</a> section for more details.
-</p>
-<p> <a
-href="http://dune-project.org/doc/buildsystem/buildsystem.pdf">DUNE
-Build System Howto</a> will also give you an excellent introduction to
-the build system and how to create new modules/projects your own.
-</p>
-</li>
-</ol>
 <h2>Creating your own DUNE project module</h2>
 <p>
 You can create your own dune project module by using the duneproject script available in dune-common/bin directory.
-Running the script will create a directory with supporting files (configure.ac ,Makefile.am etc.) and a sample .cc file.
+Running the script will create a directory with supporting files
+(configure.ac, Makefile.am etc.) and a sample .cc file.
 After creating the module you can build this as explained above under "Building a specific DUNE module".
 </p>