From 46992e71a1c596cb9b25a615738fb0b18e63c227 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Calvin Loncaric <marvinx03@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2020 17:22:47 -0800
Subject: Document that autoconf is a dependency

---
 doc/manual/installation/prerequisites-source.xml | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

(limited to 'doc/manual')

diff --git a/doc/manual/installation/prerequisites-source.xml b/doc/manual/installation/prerequisites-source.xml
index e7bdcf966..fa6da9b1e 100644
--- a/doc/manual/installation/prerequisites-source.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/installation/prerequisites-source.xml
@@ -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
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