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+# Copyright (c) 2009 Symbian Foundation Ltd
+# This component and the accompanying materials are made available
+# under the terms of the License "Eclipse Public License v1.0"
+# which accompanies this distribution, and is available
+# at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html".
+#
+# Initial Contributors:
+# Symbian Foundation Ltd - initial contribution.
+# Mike Kinghan, mikek@symbian.org
+#
+# Contributors:
+#
+# Description:
+# This is readme file for a building the Symbian build tools
+# by conventional GNU/Linux means.
+
+To use this package, first clone the Symbian build tools
+repository from //http://developer.symbian.org/oss/MCL/sftools/dev/build. To be
+sure of getting the latest sources with which this package has been tested,
+clone the repository at changeset number be27ed110b50, i.e.
+
+$ hg clone -r be27ed110b50 http://developer.symbian.org/oss/MCL/sftools/dev/build
+
+I assume you clone the repository at ~/somewhere/sftools/dev/build.
+
+Then from the directory containing this file, copy the Makefile and the directory
+'makefiles-garage' into ~/somewhere/sftools/dev/build.
+
+Then:
+
+$ cd ~/somewhere/sftools/dev/build
+$ make help
+
+Study the help, then:
+
+$ make
+
+This package is work in progress. Right now, it only makes a subset of the
+tools libraries and executables. It does make any tools exports or any kind of install.
+
+# EOF
+