2.3.2 Requirements

Has specified in section 2.3.6, after installing FestPlugin files you will need to recompile Festival. Hence standard compilation tools are required : essentially Bash and GCC Since these tools are required to recompile Festival you will find more details about them in Festival documentation and in particular about using equivalent tools.

But beware the Autoconf program is required even if you obtain FestPlugin from a tarball and not from the svn repos. Indeed Festival recompilation involves an Autoconf step as specified in 2.3.6.1.