Remove a few obsolete paragraphs.

diff --git a/README b/README
index b71ab8a61c81c965b3bae3997db6f41f14c9eb80..62b9266084ad295b64fff8b2523addb4660d164c 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -83,16 +83,7 @@ Other files you might look into:
 
 Some points you might be interested in before installing the package:
 
-1.  If you change any of the files in package the Makefile rules will
-    schedule a recompution of the gettext.pot file.  But this is not
-    possible without this package already installed.
-       If you don't have this package already installed and modified
-    any of the files build the package first with
-       --disable-nls
-    When this is done you will get a runnable xgettext program which
-    can be used to recompute gettext.pot.
-
-2.  If your system's C library already provides the gettext interface
+1.  If your system's C library already provides the gettext interface
     and its associated tools don't come from this package, it might be
     a good idea to configure the package with
         --program-prefix=g
@@ -100,19 +91,13 @@ Some points you might be interested in before installing the package:
     Systems affected by this are:
         Solaris 2.x
 
-3.  Some system have a very dumb^H^H^H^Hstrange version of msgfmt, the
+2.  Some system have a very dumb^H^H^H^Hstrange version of msgfmt, the
     one which comes with xview.  This one is *not* usable.  It's best
     you delete^H^H^H^H^H^Hrename it or install this package as in the
     point above with
        --program-prefix=g
 
-4.  On some system it is better to have strings aligned (I've been told
-    Sparcs like strings aligned to 8 byte boundaries).  If you want to
-    have the output of msgfmt aligned you can use the -a option.  But you
-    also could change the default value to be different from 1.  Take
-    a look at the --alignment option of msgfmt.
-
-5.  The locale name alias scheme implemented here is in a similar form
+3.  The locale name alias scheme implemented here is in a similar form
     implemented in the X Window System.  Especially the alias data base
     file can be shared.  Normally this file is found at something like
 
@@ -127,19 +112,10 @@ Some points you might be interested in before installing the package:
     locale.alias.
     In the misc/ subdirectory you find an example for an alias database file.
 
-6.  The msgmerge program performs fuzzy search in the message sets.  It
+4.  The msgmerge program performs fuzzy search in the message sets.  It
     might run a long time on slow systems.  I saw this problem when running
     it on my old i386DX25.  The time can really be several minutes,
     especially if you have long messages and/or a great number of
     them.
        If you have a faster implementation of the fstrcmp() function and
-    want to share it with the rest of use, please contact me.
-
-7.  On some systems it will not be possible to compile this package.
-    It is not only this package but any other GNU package, too.  These
-    systems do not provide the simplest functionality to run configure.
-    Today are known the following systems:
-
-       configure name          description
-       --------------          -----------
-       mips-mips-riscos        2.1.1AC RISCos
+    want to share it with the rest of us, please contact me.