Minor housekeeping for Gnits compliance.

* README-alpha: New file.
* README-hacking: New file.
* bootstrap: Update.

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diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
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 2011-08-16  Sergey Poznyakoff  <gray@gnu.org.ua>
 
+	Minor housekeeping for Gnits compliance.
+	
+	* README-alpha: New file.
+	* README-hacking: New file.
+	* bootstrap: Update.
+
+2011-08-16  Sergey Poznyakoff  <gray@gnu.org.ua>
+
 	Internationalization.
 	
 	* Makefile.am (SUBDIRS): Add po.
diff --git a/README-alpha b/README-alpha
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@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+This file is part of GDBM.
+See end of file for copying conditions.
+
+* Introduction
+
+This is a *pre-release* version, and not ready for production use yet.
+If you are taking source from CVS, you will need to have several
+special tools to help contribute.  See the file README-hacking for more
+information.  See chapter `Building' for the detailed instructions on
+how to build the package.
+
+Please, note that the accompanying documentation may be inaccurate
+or incomplete. The ChangeLog file is the authoritative documentation of
+all recent changes.
+
+Please, send comments and problem reports to <bug-gdbm@gnu.org>.
+
+* Checking Out the Sources
+
+The following instructions apply if you wish to obtain sources from
+the repository.  There are several repositories:
+
+1. CVS at Puszcza.gnu.org.ua - master repository
+   <https://puszcza.gnu.org.ua/cvs/?group=gdbm>
+2. Git at Puszcza.gnu.org.ua - slave
+   <http://puszcza.gnu.org.ua/git/?group=gdbm>
+3. CVS at Savannah.gnu.org - slave
+   <http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=gdbm>
+4. Git at Savannah.gnu.org - slave
+   <http://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=gdbm>
+
+Slave repositories are synchronized with the master 8 times a day.
+
+** CVS
+
+To checkout the source tree from CVS issue the following command:
+
+  cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.gnu.org.ua:/cvsroot/gdbm co gdbm
+
+Or, to checkout the sources from CVS mirror at Savannah, issue the
+following command:
+
+  cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/cvsroot/gdbm checkout gdbm
+
+** Git  
+
+To clone the Git repository, run:
+
+  git clone git://git.gnu.org.ua/gdbm.git
+
+Or, to clone the secondary GDBM Git mirrror repo, run:
+
+  git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/gdbm.git
+
+In all cases, this will give you read-only access.  If you think you need
+write access, contact <bug-gdbm@gnu.org>.
+
+* Building
+
+Usual procedures apply:
+
+ ./configure
+ make
+ make install
+
+See the files INSTALL and README for the detailed instructions.
+
+* Copyright information:
+Copyright information:
+
+Copyright (C) 1990-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+   Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
+   of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
+   copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
+   thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
+
+   Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
+   of this document, or of portions of it,
+   under the above conditions, provided also that they
+   carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
+
+Local variables:
+mode: outline
+paragraph-separate: "[ 	]*$"
+end:
diff --git a/README-hacking b/README-hacking
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+These notes intend to help people working on the development version of
+GDBM.
+
+* Requirements
+
+You need the following packages to build the CVS version of GNU
+DBM.  We do not make any efforts to accommodate older versions of
+these packages, so please make sure that you have the latest stable
+version. 
+
+- Automake <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/>
+- Autoconf <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/>
+- Libtool <http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/>
+- Gettext <http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/>
+- Texinfo <http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo>
+
+* Bootstrapping
+
+Obviously, if you are reading these notes, you did manage to checkout
+GDBM from the repository.  The next step is to get other files needed
+to build, which are extracted from other source packages: 
+
+1. Change to the source tree directory
+
+   cd gdbm
+
+2. Run
+
+   ./bootstrap 
+
+Once done, proceed as described in the file README.
+
+
+* Copyright information
+
+Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+   Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
+   of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
+   copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
+   thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
+
+   Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
+   of this document, or of portions of it,
+   under the above conditions, provided also that they
+   carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
+
+Local Variables:
+mode: outline
+paragraph-separate: "[	]*$"
+version-control: never
+End:
diff --git a/bootstrap b/bootstrap
index edef987..63ef2a0 100755
--- a/bootstrap
+++ b/bootstrap
@@ -1,3 +1,29 @@
 #! /bin/sh
+force=0
+
+if test $# -eq 0; then
+  :;
+elif test $# -eq 1; then
+  case $1 in
+  --force) force=1;;
+  --help|-h)
+     cat <<EOT
+usage: bootstrap [--force]
+bootstraps GDBM package
+EOT
+     ;;
+  *) echo >&2 "$0: unrecognized option"
+     exit 1;;
+  esac
+else
+  echo >&2 "$0: too many arguments"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+if ! test -f README-hacking && test $force -eq 0; then
+  echo >&2 "$0: bootstrapping from a non-checked-out distribution is risky"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
 test -d m4 || mkdir m4
 autoreconf -f -i -s
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