From: R.E. Wolff <R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl>
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 12:54:40 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: fixed some outdated text in README.
X-Git-Tag: v0.93~49
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=91fe8c57d3bd318365af550a248739a06f1aa27b;p=thirdparty%2Fmtr.git

fixed some outdated text in README.
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diff --git a/README b/README
index 1ff5c0f..3ae3a9a 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -15,19 +15,27 @@ WHAT IS MTR?
 
 INSTALLING
 
-  If you're building this from a tarball, compiling mtr should be as
+  If you're building this from a tarball, compiling mtr is as
   simple as:
 
-	make
+	./configure && make
 
-  It should first call the "configure" script and then run "make" again
-  with the makefile that "configure" just generated. 
+  (in the past, there was a Makefile in the distribution that did
+  the ./configure for you and then ran make again with the generated
+  Makefile, but this has suffered some bitrot. It didn't work well
+  with git.)
 
   If you're building from the git repository, you'll need to run:
 
 	./bootstrap.sh && ./configure && make
 
-  After compiling, install:
+  When it looks as if the compilation was succesful, you can 
+  test mtr with
+
+	sudo ./mtr <host>
+
+  (fill in a hostname or IP address where it says <host>) or 
+  immediately continue on to installing: 
 
 	make install