From 7fc1fb4fa073d79d7cb9b66afaac887b458cf689 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Driscoll <johnoliverdriscoll@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 25 May 2014 13:54:13 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Documented autotools build process in readme

---
 README.md | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d0babe3a056..4151314845a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -35,3 +35,15 @@ Implementation details
   * Use a precomputed table of multiples of powers of 16 multiplied with the generator, so general multiplication becomes a series of additions.
   * Slice the precomputed table in memory per byte, so memory access to the table becomes uniform.
   * Not fully constant-time.
+
+Build steps
+-----------
+
+libsecp256k1 is built using autotools:
+
+    $ aclocal
+    $ autoreconf --install
+    $ automake
+    $ ./configure
+    $ make
+    $ sudo make install  # optional