Note autotools installation steps.

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@@ -15,17 +15,20 @@ fi
 (if you happen to have *only* bash >= 3.2 installed, see further if not)
 
 If you don't have the package readily available for your distribution, or
-you simply don't want to do this, put the bash_completion file somewhere
-on your system and source it from either /etc/bashrc or ~/.bashrc, as
-explained above.
-
-A more elaborate way that takes care of not loading on old, unsupported
-bash versions as well as some other conditions is included in the bash
-completion package as bash_completion.sh.  If your system has the
-/etc/profile.d directory and loads all files from it automatically,
-you may place the file in it.  If not, place the file somewhere on your
-system and source it from /etc/bashrc or ~/.bashrc, or copy its contents
-to one of those files.
+you simply don't want to use one, you can install bash completion using the
+standard commands for GNU autotools packages:
+
+./configure
+make
+make check # optional
+make install # as root
+
+These commands installs the completions and helpers, as well as a
+profile.d script that loads bash_completion where appropriate.  If
+your system does not use the profile.d directory (usually below /etc)
+mechanism, i.e. does not automatically source shell scripts in it, you
+can source the $sysconfdir/profile.d/bash_completion.sh script in
+/etc/bashrc or ~/.bashrc.
 
 If you're using MacOS X, /etc/bashrc is apparently not sourced at all.
 In that case, you should put the bash_completion file in /sw/etc and add