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authorEelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>2020-02-19 13:02:35 +0100
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2020-02-19 13:02:35 +0100
commit2ba67da0532c5cf3cd4797c40f0031b7cc88cc15 (patch)
tree2581aaa0ee78cd6f308203ac43e4662a5b2aee22 /doc/manual
parent2a14c28669482b517204ab46645f340629af1e6d (diff)
parent46992e71a1c596cb9b25a615738fb0b18e63c227 (diff)
Merge pull request #3332 from Calvin-L/patch-1
Document that autoconf is a dependency
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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