I usually do read the readme's before doing the usual ./configure; make; make 
install, but perhaps renaming the readme to README.install or just INSTALL (as 
some other distributions do) might be more provocative to those such as Peter, 
who otherwise tend to compile first and ask questions later...

Chris

Quoting pw <p.willis@telus.net>:

> Hi Paul,
> 
> I was referring to the imaginary documentation that is *NOT*
> marked 'INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS'. as opposed to README which
> ordinarily (in many other source distributions) contains licences, kudos
> and web addresses for those who are involved in development of the
> article, and thus gets glossed over and ignored in the most minor and
> perfunctory way except by those who are curious enough to look.
> (not just by myself but apparently others with similar
> lingual incongruities as well).
> 
> I will now vigilantly attend to the README files of all the software
> distributions which I have speciously untarred and compiled, whilst
> willfully disregarding those tomes. I have much READMEing to do.
> Those installations must all be wrong....it's a wonder that they
> function at all.  :)
> 
> I'm nitpicking. I should just learn to *read everything*
> regardless of the title.
> (I should have learned that by now)
> 
> Peter
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 14:38, Paul Ramsey wrote:
> > Fair enough. Which fake documentation led you to believe something else,
> > it would be good to change that.
> > P.
> >
> 
> 
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