From e4df561e0843e4fc93a57609955fea00618da6ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pierre-Yves Ritschard <pyr@spootnik.org>
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 13:27:58 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] mention configure script generation (idea from @hugoduncan).

fixes #818
---
 README | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

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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2.11.0