[Asterisk-code-review] documentation: Add information on running install_prereq script in re... (asterisk[16])

[Joshua Colp]

Joshua Colp has submitted this change. ( https://gerrit.asterisk.org/c/asterisk/+/18269 )

Change subject: documentation: Add information on running install_prereq script in readme
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documentation: Add information on running install_prereq script in readme

Adding information in the readme about running the install_preqreq script to install components that the ./configure script might indicate as missing.

ASTERISK-29976 #close

Change-Id: Ic287b46300168729838bddd8f9265e98fc22bce6
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M README.md
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Approvals:
  Joshua Colp: Looks good to me, but someone else must approve; Approved for Submit
  Kevin Harwell: Looks good to me, but someone else must approve
  Benjamin Keith Ford: Looks good to me, approved



diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 29cb47a..0eb4b87 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -91,7 +91,10 @@
 2. Run `./configure`
 
   Execute the configure script to guess values for system-dependent
-variables used during compilation.
+variables used during compilation. If the script indicates that some required 
+components are missing, you can run `./contrib/scripts/install_prereq install`
+to install the necessary components. Note that this will install all dependencies for every functionality of Asterisk. After running the script, you will need
+to rerun `./configure`.
 
 3. Run `make menuselect` _\[optional]_
 

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Gerrit-Project: asterisk
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Gerrit-Change-Id: Ic287b46300168729838bddd8f9265e98fc22bce6
Gerrit-Change-Number: 18269
Gerrit-PatchSet: 2
Gerrit-Owner: Marcel Wagner <mwagner at sipgate.de>
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