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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 0017eed..754a32b 100755
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -2,7 +2,12 @@ Fontconfig is built with the traditional configure script:
$ ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man
-This should generate valid Makefiles, then:
+If you checked out from the git repository (as opposed to downloading a
+tarball), you need to run autogen.sh instead of configure:
+
+ $ ./autogen.sh --sysconfdir=/etc --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man
+
+Either way, that should generate valid Makefiles, then:
$ make
$ make install
@@ -14,9 +19,9 @@ important steps:
sh new-version.sh 2.xx.xx
2. rebuild the configuration files with autogen.sh
- sh autogen.sh --sysconfdir=/etc --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --localstatedir=/var
+ ./autogen.sh --sysconfdir=/etc --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --localstatedir=/var
- 3. make distcheck (NB: won't work without docbook-utils -PL)
+ 3. make distcheck
4. Copy ChangeLog-2.x.y and fontconfig-2.x.y.tar.gz to