README.md: mention how to generate configure script

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# Installation
The plugin can be built by running `./configure && make`. The build system must
be able to find the NTFS-3G library and headers. On some platforms this may
require that the "ntfs-3g-dev" package or similar be installed in addition to
the main "ntfs-3g" package.
First, if you're building from the git repository instead of from a release
tarball, you'll need to generate the `configure` script by running
`autoreconf -i`. This requires GNU autoconf, automake, and libtool.
The plugin can then be built by running `./configure && make`. The build system
must be able to find the NTFS-3G library and headers. On some platforms this
may require that the "ntfs-3g-dev" package or similar be installed in addition
to the main "ntfs-3g" package.
After compiling, run `make install` to install the plugin to the NTFS-3G plugin
directory, which will be a subdirectory "ntfs-3g" of the system library