README: Add basic build instructions.

Signed-off-by: Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>

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@@ -5,11 +5,20 @@ The project home is http://elfutils.org/
 Releases are published at ftp://sourceware.org/pub/elfutils/
 Which can also be found at https://sourceware.org/elfutils/ftp/
 
+To build a release do: ./configure && make && make check
+Please check the configure summary to make sure all recommended
+features are enabled. There should be no failures after make check.
+
 Please reports bugs at https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/
 
 The current elfutils source code can be checked out with
 git clone git://sourceware.org/git/elfutils.git
 
+To build a git checkout do:
+  autoreconf -i -f && \
+  ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode && \
+  make && make check
+
 The developer mailinglist to send patches to is
 elfutils-devel@sourceware.org.
 https://sourceware.org/ml/elfutils-devel/