Re: What happened to INSTALL.txt?

[Knute Snortum]

Well it looks like README.git should just contain this:

Instructions for compiling LilyPond from source files can be found online at:

    https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.21/Documentation/contributor/index_17#Compiling

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Knute Snortum

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On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 7:43 AM Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org> wrote:

>> Seems to me like kind of a chicken-and-egg problem, though. In
>> order to build lilypond I need to read INSTALL.txt, but in order to
>> read INSTALL.txt, I need to build lilypond first...  I ended up
>> googling for the file on the website and following the steps from
>> there instead.
>
> What about a README.txt file that says, "Run configure"?

I think the normal way is to have a `README.git` file that contains
the necessary first steps to build from the repository, and people
should then continue with reading `README.txt` after it has been
created.


    Werner