This used to be the case before commit 30de2cb603cd. Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan(a)redhat.com&gt; --- README | 1 - autogen.sh | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README b/README index 679bf7010bbe..e5187a65ed47 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -107,7 +107,6 @@ Building and installing If you're cloning this from git the first time, do: - ./bootstrap ./autogen.sh For normal builds, and building from the tarball: diff --git a/autogen.sh b/autogen.sh index 3a913e03a401..064df589d004 100755 --- a/autogen.sh +++ b/autogen.sh @@ -2,6 +2,11 @@ set -e +# If the submodule is not initialized run bootstrap +if git submodule status .gnulib | grep -q '^-'; then + ./bootstrap +fi + # If no arguments were specified and configure has run before, use the previous # arguments if test $# -eq 0 && test -x ./config.status; then