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+This directory contains the 3.72.8 test release of GNU Make.
+All bugs reported for previous test releases have been fixed.
+Some bugs surely remain.
+
+For general building and installation instructions, see the file INSTALL.
+If you need to build GNU Make and have no other `make' program to use,
+you can use the shell script `build.sh' instead.  To do this, first run
+`configure' as described in INSTALL.  Then, instead of typing `make' to
+build the program, type `sh build.sh'.  This should compile the program
+in the current directory.  Then you will have a Make program that you can
+use for `make install', or whatever else.
+
+It has been reported that the XLC 1.2 compiler on AIX 3.2 is buggy such
+that if you compile make with `cc -O' on AIX 3.2, it will not work correctly.
+It is said that using `cc' without `-O' does work.
+
+One area that is often a problem in configuration and porting is the code
+to check the system's current load average.  To make it easier to test and
+debug this code, you can do `make check-loadavg' to see if it works
+properly on your system.  (You must run `configure' beforehand, but you
+need not build Make itself to run this test.)
+
+See the file NEWS for what has changed since previous releases.
+
+GNU Make is fully documented in make.texinfo.  See the section entitled
+`Problems and Bugs' for information on submitting bug reports.
+
+GNU Make is free software.  See the file COPYING for copying conditions.