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Merge pull request #4 from google/fix_readme

Add instructions on how to generate the configure script.
Jisi Liu 11 years ago
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 C++ Installation - Unix
 C++ Installation - Unix
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+If you get the source from github, you need to generate the configure script
+first:
+
+  $ ./autogen.sh
+
+This will download gtest source (which is used for C++ Protocol Buffer
+unit-tests) to the current directory and run automake, autoconf, etc.
+to generate the configure script and various template makefiles.
+
+You can skip this step if you are using a release package (which already
+contains gtest and the configure script).
+
 To build and install the C++ Protocol Buffer runtime and the Protocol
 To build and install the C++ Protocol Buffer runtime and the Protocol
 Buffer compiler (protoc) execute the following:
 Buffer compiler (protoc) execute the following: