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bug#25377: No INSTALL in git sources
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From: |
Jim Meyering |
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Subject: |
bug#25377: No INSTALL in git sources |
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Date: |
Fri, 13 Jan 2017 20:59:04 -0800 |
On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 8:08 PM, Assaf Gordon <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> On 01/06/2017 08:24 AM, jean-christophe manciot wrote:
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>> I do notice that the plain README file does refer to the non-existing
>> INSTALL file (which does exist if built from tarball).
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>> I'll add a small patch to improve it (leaving this bug open until I do).
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> Here's a suggestion for updating README.
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> Comments welcomed,
What do you think of using this paragraph from coreutils' README?
If you obtained this file as part of a "git clone", then see the
README-hacking file. If this file came to you as part of a tar archive,
then see the file INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions.