$Id$ The old way of fetching rfc2629tools was just to check it out of subversion, but this has grown cumbersome as the IETF bibliographic database has grown, so the preferred mechanism for fetching the tools and database is now rsync: $ rsync -a rsync://subvert-ietf.hactrn.net/rfc2629tools/ rfc2629tools/ You should re-run this command every now and then to fetch any changes to the tools or updates to the bibliographic database. You can put the rfc2629tools directory anywhere that makes sense to you, but if you put it somewhere other than ./rfc2629tools or ../rfc2629tools you will need to set the RFC2629TOOLS_BASE environment variable to tell GNUmakefile where to find the tools: $ export RFC2629TOOLS_BASE=/some/where/rfc2629tools In any case, once you have the rfc2629tools, you should be able to check your document out of subversion and play with it, eg: $ svn co https://subvert-ietf.hactrn.net/your-doc $ cd your-doc $ make