GRAPHITE ENGINE The Graphite smart-font engine is the bit that takes a Unicode string, font formatting information (features, size, etc.) and a font and returns a set of positioned glyphs. Graphite also does more than this, in that it can handle cursor tracking and interaction with the application for string selection, etc. In order to interact with the application or system, Graphite is embedded in an application. You may want to write a custom font and render backend or use one of the provided backends in the wrappers project. The *nix build system uses autoconf and automake including all the conventions of those tools. This includes extended support for debug, maintenance mode, etc. See the GNU autotools info pages for the appropriate tools for help. If you have checked this source out of the Graphite Subversion repository or a similar version control system you will need to generate the autotools scripts and files (configure, Makefile.in etc) to do this run: autoreconf --install Please see INSTALL for information on building NOTE: If you modify any configure.in or Makefile.am file you will need rerun autoreconf like so: autoreconf For those changes to affect the configure script and makefiles.