diff --git a/bootstrap b/bootstrap
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bootstrap
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+set -e
+set -x
+if test -f Makefile; then
+ make distclean
+fi
+rm -rf *~ *.cache *.m4 config.guess config.log \
+ config.status config.sub depcomp ltmain.sh
+autoreconf --verbose --install --force