You’ll need to install

sudo apt-get install libexpat1-dev libboost1.37-dev g++ autoconf automake libtool

To build run:

./autogen.sh
./configure
make
make check

You can generate a sort of slackware-style binary package with:

make tgz

make distcheck

To generate documentation including internal APIs run

make doc-internal

Otherwise of course all the standard autotools features should work.

TBD.

Q) What do I do if I get the following while running autogen.sh ?
./autogen.sh: 49: aclocal: not found_
A) Install automake