X-Git-Url: https://git.wh0rd.org/?p=fontconfig.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=754a32b93efca0203eb45959f9fcbfe059e5609b;hp=b955837707d10ffd0ce2ac27af84e4b7485ec807;hb=d6351325056a94e2db0c8c533c7d16eb5c278861;hpb=0dbbf9f20b8a65af8a8a05ada653d99117192622

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index b955837..754a32b 100644
--- 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