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authorCalvin Loncaric <marvinx03@gmail.com>2020-01-26 17:22:47 -0800
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2020-01-26 17:22:47 -0800
commit46992e71a1c596cb9b25a615738fb0b18e63c227 (patch)
treef787d17659d5ae253390387390dfc30c19a0554f
parent2242be83c61788b9c0736a92bb0b5c7bbfc40803 (diff)
Document that autoconf is a dependency
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diff --git a/doc/manual/installation/prerequisites-source.xml b/doc/manual/installation/prerequisites-source.xml
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@@ -8,6 +8,14 @@
<itemizedlist>
+ <listitem><para>GNU Autoconf
+ (<link xlink:href="https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/"/>)
+ and the autoconf-archive macro collection
+ (<link xlink:href="https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf-archive/"/>).
+ These are only needed to run the bootstrap script, and are not necessary
+ if your source distribution came with a pre-built
+ <literal>./configure</literal> script.</para></listitem>
+
<listitem><para>GNU Make.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Bash Shell. The <literal>./configure</literal> script