From: Pierre-Yves Ritschard <pyr@spootnik.org>
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 12:27:58 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: mention configure script generation (idea from @hugoduncan).
X-Git-Tag: collectd-5.5.0~128
X-Git-Url: https://git.verplant.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e4df561e0843e4fc93a57609955fea00618da6ec;p=collectd.git

mention configure script generation (idea from @hugoduncan).

fixes #818
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diff --git a/README b/README
index 8a347810..a2f80ce7 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -873,6 +873,23 @@ Configuring with libjvm
   Adding "-ljvm" to the JAVA_LDFLAGS is done automatically, you don't have to
   do that.
 
+Generating the configure script
+-------------------------------
+
+Collectd ships with a `build.sh' script to generate the `configure'
+script shipped with releases.
+
+To generate the `configure` script, you'll need the following dependencies:
+
+- autoconf
+- automke
+- flex
+- bison
+- libtool
+- libtool-ltdl
+
+The `build.sh' script takes no arguments.
+
 Crosscompiling
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