From 6a1efc6c1d5738c4f9291d97c51b50d28eb7a025 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: William S Fulton <wsf@fultondesigns.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 20:14:16 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Clearer build and install instructions in the README file for
 Github users.

Fixes #634.
---
 Doc/Manual/Preface.html |  6 ++++++
 README                  | 10 +++++++---
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Doc/Manual/Preface.html b/Doc/Manual/Preface.html
index 4a9ad5ba9..31ca352d5 100644
--- a/Doc/Manual/Preface.html
+++ b/Doc/Manual/Preface.html
@@ -265,6 +265,12 @@ the main SWIG distribution. There is no need to download anything else.
 
 <H3><a name="Preface_unix_installation">1.12.2 Unix installation</a></H3>
 
+<p>
+These installation instructions are for using the distributed tarball,
+for example, <tt>swig-3.0.8.tar.gz</tt>.
+If you wish to build and install from source on Github, extra steps are required.
+Please see the <a href="http://swig.org/svn.html">Bleeding Edge</a> page on the SWIG website.
+</p>
 
 <p>
 You must use <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/make/">GNU make</a> to build and install SWIG.
diff --git a/README b/README
index b24475d61..792af9e1a 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -68,9 +68,13 @@ than one version of SWIG.
 Installation
 ============
 Please read the Doc/Manual/Preface.html#Preface_installation for
-full installation instructions for Windows, Unix and Mac OS X.
-The INSTALL file has generic build and installation instructions for
-Unix users.
+full installation instructions for Windows, Unix and Mac OS X
+using the release tarball/zip file. The INSTALL file has generic
+build and installation instructions for Unix users.
+Users wishing to build and install code from Github should
+visit http://swig.org/svn.html to obtain the more detailed
+instructions required for building code obtained from Github - extra
+steps are required compared to building from the release tarball.
 
 Testing
 =======