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Add instructions on how to generate the configure script. #4

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C++ Installation - Unix
=======================

If you get the source from github, you need to generate the configure script
first:

$ ./autogen.sh

This will download gtest source (which is used for C++ Protocol Buffer
unit-tests) to the current directory and run automake, autoconf, etc.
to generate the configure script and various template makefiles.

You can skip this step if you are using a release package (which already
contains gtest and the configure script).

To build and install the C++ Protocol Buffer runtime and the Protocol
Buffer compiler (protoc) execute the following:

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