X-Git-Url: http://git.efficios.com/?p=babeltrace.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=d76d69809b175d8714e73d8f1c15a9be40af688b;hp=75bf0cf65464f7171813ff1a5de66dbe5da349bc;hb=94a6cea3f1639fb0c71b1c591af7880af7507fc0;hpb=8479699f391d0f26e6bb51d2313254d879f66323

diff --git a/README b/README
index 75bf0cf6..d76d6980 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ BUILDING
 	make install
 	ldconfig
 
-
 DEPENDENCIES
 ------------
 
@@ -44,6 +43,19 @@ To compile Babeltrace, you will need:
 	libpopt >= 1.13 development libraries
 	  (Debian : libpopt-dev)
 	  (Fedora : popt)
+	python headers (optional)
+	  (Debian/Ubuntu : python3-dev)
+	swig >= 2.0 (optional)
+	  (Debian/Ubuntu : swig2.0)
+	python 3.0 or better (optional)
+	  (Debian/Ubuntu : python3)
+
+  If you want Python bindings, run ./configure --enable-python-bindings.
+  Please note that some distributions will need the following
+  environment variables set before running configure:
+
+    export PYTHON="python3"
+    export PYTHON_CONFIG="/usr/bin/python3-config"
 
 For developers using the git tree:
 
@@ -61,3 +73,5 @@ compile the git repository tree :
 If you get the tree from the repository, you will need to use the "bootstrap"
 script in the root of the tree. It calls all the GNU tools needed to prepare the
 tree configuration.
+
+Running "make check": bash is required.