From: Jim Meyering Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:07:21 +0000 (+0200) Subject: README: Also mention README-hacking, X-Git-Tag: v6.9.89~271 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e1afd98589f5507da8e1ccfb076b0c0f4a23cd9b;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git README: Also mention README-hacking, for whose who start from cloned/checked-out sources rather than from a distribution tarball. Reported by Steve Ward. * THANKS: Add Steve Ward. Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering --- diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 6a30666f1b..2be3fd8c2d 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +2007-06-11 Jim Meyering + + * README: Mention README-hacking, for whose who start from + cloned/checked-out sources rather than from a distribution tarball. + Reported by Steve Ward. + * THANKS: Add Steve Ward. + 2007-06-10 Jim Meyering bug-fix: cp would fail to write through a dangling symlink diff --git a/README b/README index 62853c22a7..0d6e46df24 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -18,7 +18,10 @@ The programs that can be built with this package are: See the file NEWS for a list of major changes in the current release. -See the file INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions. +If you obtained this file as part of a "cvs checkout" or "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. These programs are intended to conform to POSIX (with BSD and other extensions), like the rest of the GNU system. By default they conform diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS index 7d9c52752e..e35b9fd5e0 100644 --- a/THANKS +++ b/THANKS @@ -467,6 +467,7 @@ Stephen Gildea gildea@stop.mail-abuse.org Stephen Smoogen smooge@mindspring.com Steve McConnel steve@acadcomp.sil.org Steve McIntyre steve@einval.com +Steve Ward planet36@gmail.com Steven G. Johnson stevenj@alum.mit.edu Steven Mocking ufo@quicknet.nl Steven P Watson steven@magelico.net