Install automake, libtool, glib, GTK+ and libxml2 (for Python plugin support you also need python-dev
):
# apt-get install automake1.10 libtool libglib2.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev libxml2-dev
Create the configure script:
$ ./autogen.sh
Run the configure script (I do not need Perl, so I simply disabled it; I can help you installing the needed packages though):
$ ./configure --disable-perl
Run make:
$ make
Install it (without -strip
you would install HexChat including debugging symbols etc.):
# make install-strip
Hexchat needs automake1.11 now.