Update README to mention autogen.sh

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@ -114,12 +114,18 @@ Building PCRE2 using autotools
The following instructions assume the use of the widely used "configure; make;
make install" (autotools) process.
To build PCRE2 on system that supports autotools, first run the "configure"
command from the PCRE2 distribution directory, with your current directory set
If you have downloaded and unpacked a PCRE2 release tarball, run the
"configure" command from the PCRE2 directory, with your current directory set
to the directory where you want the files to be created. This command is a
standard GNU "autoconf" configuration script, for which generic instructions
are supplied in the file INSTALL.
The files in the GitHub repository do not contain "configure". If you have
downloaded the PCRE2 source files from GitHub, before you can run "configure"
you must run the shell script called autogen.sh. This runs a number of
autotools to create a "configure" script (you must of course have the autotools
commands installed in order to do this).
Most commonly, people build PCRE2 within its own distribution directory, and in
this case, on many systems, just running "./configure" is sufficient. However,
the usual methods of changing standard defaults are available. For example:
@ -905,4 +911,4 @@ The distribution should contain the files listed below.
Philip Hazel
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Last updated: 13 April 2022