updated INSTALL, NEWS and other files for new release

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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 50dbe43..c0f221c 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -13,15 +13,11 @@ you can run in the future to recreate the current configuration, a file
 reconfiguring, and a file `config.log' containing compiler output
 (useful mainly for debugging `configure').
 
-   If you need to do unusual things to compile the package, please try
-to figure out how `configure' could check whether to do them, and mail
-diffs or instructions to the address given in the `README' so they can
-be considered for the next release.  If at some point `config.cache'
-contains results you don't want to keep, you may remove or edit it.
-
-   The file `configure.in' is used to create `configure' by a program
-called `autoconf'.  You only need `configure.in' if you want to change
-it or regenerate `configure' using a newer version of `autoconf'.
+   The file `configure.ac' is used to create `configure' by a program
+called `autoconf'.  You only need `configure.ac' if you want to change
+it or regenerate `configure' using a newer version of
+`autoconf'. Please use the autogen.sh shell script, which will run all
+the autotools to generate the `configure' script if it is missing.
 
 The simplest way to compile this package is:
 
@@ -137,7 +133,7 @@ need to know the host type.
    If you are building compiler tools for cross-compiling, you can also
 use the `--target=TYPE' option to select the type of system they will
 produce code for and the `--build=TYPE' option to select the type of
-system on which you are compiling the package.
+system on which you are compiling the package. 
 
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