Re: missing INSTALL file

[Jim Meyering]

"Steve Ward" <address@hidden> wrote:
> I just checked out coreutils for the first time with the following command:
> cvs -z3 -d:pserver:address@hidden:/sources/coreutils co .
>
> My intention is to build it from source.
>
> The README file has the following line:
> "See the file INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions."
>
> However, the INSTALL file does not exist.  Am I looking in the wrong place?

Thanks.
I've just updated README to mention the README-hacking file.
Also, I recommend that you try git, rather then cvs:

  git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/coreutils