Brief installation instructions:

1.  Create an empty directory anywhere you like.

2.  Change the current directory to be that empty directory.

3.  Using a full path (relative or absolute), execute the
    "configure" script where you extracted the source, while
    the empty directory is the current directory.

    This is a big script building a big Makefile so it takes
    a while.  Typical timings are:
        30s on Pentium-III, 800 MHz, Linux 2.4 [pdh]
	1m45s on Celeron, 333 MHz, Linux 2.4 [pdh]
        2m30s on PPC, Powerbook G3, 333 MHz, Linux 2.4 [pflanze]

    You may specify an installation target with the option:
        --prefix=/full/path/to/install

    If you do not specify an installation target, a default
    in /tmp is used with the name of the package, such as:
        --prefix=/tmp/libh-${VERSION}

4.  Do:  make

    Typical timings are:
        5m on Pentium-III, 800 MHz, gcc 3.2.2, Linux 2.4 [pdh]
	14m on Celeron, 333 MHz, gcc 3.2.2, Linux 2.4 [pdh]
	13m30s on PPC, Powerbook G3, 333 MHz, gcc 2.95.4, Linux 2.4 [pflanze]

5.  If all goes well, then do:  make install


There are some other options you may use on configure, such as:

    -v
        More verbose output during execution of configure.

    --source=
        Specify the location of the source files if it cannot be
        determined from the script name path.

    --optimize=
        Set the compiler optimization for all compiles.
        The default is 2.

    --execdynamic
        Build all executable programs with dynamic linking to all
        libraries (not just system libraries).

    --execstatic
        Build all executable programs with static linking to all
        libraries (not just the libraries built here).

    --noarlib
        Do not build the static linking object archive library.

    --nosolib
        Do not build the dynamic linking share object library.

    --asm
        Produce assembly output as .s files in the same subdirectories
        that the .o files are produced in.