5.3. Before You Begin
To follow the development progress of LVM, subscribe to the LVM mailing lists, linux-lvm and the appropriate commit list (see Section C.1).
To build LVM from the CVS sources, you must have several GNU tools:
the CVS client version 1.9 or better
GCC 2.95.2
GNU make 3.79
autoconf, version 2.13 or better