diff --git a/README b/README
index 3eb6c35..23f29b2 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Otherwise, you likely have the sources as they exist in the project
 repository, which does not contain the generature `configure' script; you
 may generate it by issuing the following commands:
 
-  $ aclocal && automake --foreign && autoconf
+  $ aclocal && automake --add-missing --foreign && autoconf
 
 Please note that the --foreign argument is necessary to `automake' to ignore
 certain missing files (such as ChangeLog) that are generated at build time.