Docs: Update installation instructions to include submodules #153
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michaelrsweet
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Jan 24, 2026
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| If you cloned this repository from GitHub, you must initialize the submodules before building: | ||
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| git submodule update --init --recursive |
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You don't need --recursive since the TTF submodule has no submodules of its own. And you only need it if the TTF library isn't already installed...
Alternately you can use the --recurse-submodules option with "git clone".
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Without running
git submodule update --init, the ./configure script fails with "WARNING: no configuration information is in ttf".