Describe autotools/libtool/automake version dependency

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>

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@@ -24,6 +24,22 @@ REQUIREMENTS:
 
       * Debian/Ubuntu package: libpopt-dev
 
+For developers using the git tree:
+
+This source tree is based on the autotools suite from GNU to simplify
+portability. Here are some things you should have on your system in order to
+compile the git repository tree :
+
+- GNU autotools (automake >=1.10, autoconf >=2.50, autoheader >=2.50)
+  (make sure your system wide "automake" points to a recent version!)
+- GNU Libtool >=2.2
+  (for more information, go to http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/)
+
+If you get the tree from the repository, you will need to use the "bootstrap"
+script in the root of the tree. It calls all the GNU tools needed to prepare the
+tree configuration.
+
+
 INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:
 
   - Download, compile and install the prerequisites.