Rewrite the bootstrap suite.

* README-alpha: Rewritten.
* bootstrap.conf: Rewritten.
* bootstrap: Slightly modified version from gnulib.
* gnulib.modules, README-hacking: New files.
* doc/mailfromd.texi: Minor fix.


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+These notes intend to help people working on the SVN version of
+Mailfromd.
+See end of file for copying conditions.
+
+* Requirements
+
+If you have taken the sources from SVN you will need the following
+packages to build mailfromd.  I don't make any extra effort 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/>
+- Bison <http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/>
+- Flex <http://flex.sourceforge.net/>
+- Gettext <http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/>
+- Gnulib <http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/>
+- Mailutils <http://www.gnu.org/software/mailutils/>
+- M4 <http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/>
+- Rsync <http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/>
+- Texinfo <http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo>
+
+* Bootstrapping
+
+Obviously, if you are reading these notes, you did manage to check out
+Mailfromd from SVN. 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 mailfromd
+
+2. Run
+
+   ./bootstrap 
+
+Once done, proceed as described in the file README (section
+INSTALLATION).
+
+Normally you will have to run bootstrap only once. However, if you
+intend to hack on Mailfromd, you might need to run it again later. In
+this case, you will probably want to save some time and bandwidth by
+avoiding downloading the same files again. If so, create in Mailfromd
+root directory the file named `.bootstrap' with the following
+contents:
+
+   --gnulib-srcdir=$HOME/gnulib
+
+Replace `$HOME/gnulib' with the actual directory where the Gnulib
+sources reside.
+
+If you wish to avoid synchronising translations, add this option:
+--skip-po.
+
+For more information about `bootstrap', run `bootstrap --help'.
+
+
+* Copyright information
+
+Copyright (C) 2008 Sergey Poznyakoff
+
+   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:
+
+
+   
+