On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Fred Concklin <fconcklin@trucoin.com> wrote:
I was specifically referring to building with autotools as a starting
point. Primarily autoconf to ease the installation and testing process.

Some work has already been done for autotools (not yet merged into main repo). You might want to start there.

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/180 

- Jay