Cover the developer case for bootstrapping the source

git-svn-id: svn://svn.open-ils.org/OpenSRF/trunk@1545 9efc2488-bf62-4759-914b-345cdb29e865

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+++ b/README
@@ -25,6 +25,12 @@ prerequisites for CentOS 5 and RHEL 5, or "gentoo" for Gentoo - but
 these are less tested distributions. Your patches and suggestions for
 improvement are welcome!
 
+Note: If you are installing this using a copy of the source code that was
+checked out directly from the OpenSRF Subversion repository rather
+than from a downloaded release of the source code, there are a few
+additional prerequisite tools and steps that you will need to follow.
+See "Developer instructions" at the bottom of the file.
+
 Configuration and compilation instructions:
 ==========================================
 
@@ -182,6 +188,23 @@ $ /etc/init.d/dnsmasq restart
 Then edit /etc/resolv.conf and ensure that "nameserver 127.0.0.1" is the first
 entry in the file.
 
+Developer instructions:
+======================
+
+Developers working directly with the source code from the Subversion
+repository will also need to install some extra packages and perform
+one more step before they can proceed with the "./configure" step.
+
+Install the following packages:
+  * autoconf
+  * automake
+  * libtool
+
+Run the following command in the source directory to generate the configure
+script and Makefiles:
+
+$ ./autogen.sh 
+
 Getting help:
 ============