diff --git a/README b/README
index e7c13f56..b527f2c4 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ Warning: your distrib may provide an outdated wt library. Latest Wt highly recom
 
 II) BUILD
 
+autoreconf -vfi
 mkdir build
 cd build
 ../configure