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@@ -1,10 +1,23 @@
-Building and installing jemalloc can be as simple as typing the following while
-in the root directory of the source tree:
+Building and installing a packaged release of jemalloc can be as simple as
+typing the following while in the root directory of the source tree:
 
     ./configure
     make
     make install
 
+If building from unpackaged developer sources, the simplest command sequence
+that might work is:
+
+    ./autogen.sh
+    make dist
+    make
+    make install
+
+Note that documentation is not built by the default target because doing so
+would create a dependency on xsltproc in packaged releases, hence the
+requirement to either run 'make dist' or avoid installing docs via the various
+install_* targets documented below.
+
 === Advanced configuration =====================================================
 
 The 'configure' script supports numerous options that allow control of which