No output from ./autogen.sh --help and other getting started issues (Ubuntu)

[Stephan Bergmann]

On 08/24/2012 11:47 AM, B.J. Herbison wrote:
> Issue 3: The Libux dependency page says "Get upstream Junit at ...". OK, I
> got the file, what do I do now? I presume it needs to go somewhere other
> than my downloads directory.

Call autogen.sh with

   --with-junit=<absolute path to JUnit 4 jar>

(the default --with-junit=yes looks for it in a number of well-known 
places, /usr/share/java/junit4.jar etc.; easiest thing typically is to 
install the distro's junit package and we should find it automatically 
then).

Stephan