Basic Installation
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-Briefly, the shell commands `./configure; make; make install' should
-configure, build, and install this package. The following
+Briefly, the shell commands `./autogen.sh; ./configure; make; make install'
+should configure, build, and install this package. The following
more-detailed instructions are generic; see the `README' file for
instructions specific to this package.
The simplest way to compile this package is:
+ 0. If the sources are not coming from a package maintainer and the
+ 'configure' file does not exist, you should run './autogen.sh' in
+ the directory containing the package's source code in order to
+ generate the 'configure' file from the 'configure.ac' file.
+
1. `cd' to the directory containing the package's source code and type
`./configure' to configure the package for your system.