diff --git a/README b/README
index fe70e725f..900324ab1 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -284,6 +284,10 @@ libraries that OpenOCD depends on. Alternatively, you can specify
 *_CFLAGS and *_LIBS environment variables directly, see "./configure
 --help" for the details.
 
+For a more or less complete script that does all this for you, see
+
+  contrib/cross-build.sh
+
 Parallel Port Dongles
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