clarify git builds in README

see https://github.com/jcupitt/libvips/issues/414
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@ -32,9 +32,13 @@ website](http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk).
There are packages for most unix-like operating systems and binaries for
Windows and OS X.
# Building libvips from source
# Building libvips from a source tarball
In the libvips directory you should just be able to do:
We keep pre-baked tarballs of releases on the vips website:
http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/supported/current/
Untar, then in the libvips directory you should just be able to do:
$ ./configure
@ -47,7 +51,7 @@ For the vips8 Python binding, you must have
You'll need the dev packages for the file format support you
want. For basic jpeg and tiff support, you'll need `libtiff5-dev`,
`libjpeg-turbo8-dev`, and `libgsf-1-dev`. See the Dependencies section
`libjpeg-turbo8-dev`, and `libgsf-1-dev`. See the **Dependencies** section
below for a full list of the things that libvips can be configured to use.
Once `configure` is looking OK, compile and install with the usual: