Building Heartbeat is an automated process making extensive use of GNU Autotools. When building and installing on the same machine, it usually amounts to just the following sequence of commands:

$ ./bootstrap
$ ./ConfigureMe configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

A number of configuration options are supported, and you may tweak some of them to optimize Heartbeat for your system. To retrieve a list of configuration options, you may invoke configure with the --help option. A customized build may thus comprise these steps:

$ ./bootstrap
$ ./ConfigureMe configure --help
$ ./ConfigureMe configure configuration-options
$ make
$ sudo make install