update to explain where flex cvs lives

diff --git a/README.cvs-snapshot b/README.cvs-snapshot
index 45c9edb6a4532c26a882a6ac7372ff6907080817..f3beb15835051f3a62b0fe9caf97cc0c50d28453 100644 (file)
--- a/README.cvs-snapshot
+++ b/README.cvs-snapshot
@@ -1,12 +1,14 @@
-This file gives information regarding cvs snapshots of flex. cvs
-snapshots of flex contain the files which are under version control by
-the flex maintainers for the flex project. These snapshots can be
-found at:
+This file gives information regarding the cvs tree of flex. The cvs
+tree of flex contains the files which are under version control by
+the flex maintainers for the flex project. 
 
-ftp://ftp.uncg.edu/people/wlestes/
+You can learn about the details of retrieving a copy of the cvs flex
+tree from flex's SourceForge project page at:
+
+http://sourceforge.net/projects/flex
 
 If you are not interested in flex development or you are not in need
-of the latest bleeding-edge features, then cvs snapshots of flex are
+of the latest bleeding-edge features, then the cvs flex tree is
 not for you.
 
 When you get a distribution of flex, a large number of intermediate
@@ -21,17 +23,17 @@ flex, but the listed versions may not work for you.
 compiler suite;  e.g., gcc
 bash or some other fairly robust sh-style shell
 GNU bison;  to generate parse.c from parse.y
-GNU m4 1.4; required by BNU autoconf (yes, it *must* be GNU m4)
-GNU autoconf 2.54 and GNU automake 1.7; for generating Makefiles etc.
+GNU m4 1.4; required by GNU autoconf (yes, it *must* be GNU m4)
+GNU autoconf 2.59 and GNU automake 1.9.6; for generating Makefiles etc.
 GNU gettext 0.11.5; for i18n
 flex (latest beta release);  for bootstrap of scan.l
 help2man 1.27; to generate man page
 tar, gzip, etc.; for packaging of the source distribution
-GNU texinfo 4.3d;  to build and test the flex manual
+GNU texinfo 4.8;  to build and test the flex manual
 perl; GNU automake and GNU autoconf now depend on perl to run
 GNU indent 2.8; for indenting the flex source the way we want it done
 
-ONce you have all the necessary tools installed, life becomes
+Once you have all the necessary tools installed, life becomes
 simple. To prepare the flex tree for building, run the script:
 
 $ ./autogen.sh
@@ -41,6 +43,4 @@ This script calls the various tools needed to get flex ready for the
 GNU-style configure script to be able to work.
 
 From this point on, building flex follows the usual configure, make,
-make install routine, almost. When configuring the flex tree, pass the
---enable-maintainer-mode option to configure. If you forget, you will
-see errors about a missing file `version.texi'.
+make install routine.