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-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