Nothing special is needed for 1.38 and later (meson/ninja).
For older versions using the autotools:
When building from source cloned from the git repository, you also need to
install autoconf, automake,
and libtool and you must execute sh
autogen.sh in the top source directory before
running configure.
You will also need to run configure
with --disable-userdoc or install the Docbook XML/XSL files needed
for translating the Docbook XML manual into HTML.
