doc cleanup

git-svn-id: http://gnuradio.org/svn/gnuradio/trunk@6868 221aa14e-8319-0410-a670-987f0aec2ac5

2 files changed, 16 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 54caf7c19..54703e439 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Free Software
+Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2007 Free Software
 Foundation, Inc.
 
    This file is free documentation; the Free Software Foundation gives
@@ -7,8 +7,15 @@ unlimited permission to copy, distribute and modify it.
 Basic Installation
 ==================
 
+See also the OS specific Build Guide at:
+  http://gnuradio.org/trac/wiki/BuildGuide
+
+Please read the README too ;)
+
+
    These are generic installation instructions.
 
+
    The `configure' shell script attempts to guess correct values for
 various system-dependent variables used during compilation.  It uses
 those values to create a `Makefile' in each directory of the package.
diff --git a/README b/README
index 2000f73e1..a3f1d8b0a 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #
-# Copyright 2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright 2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 # 
 # This file is part of GNU Radio
 # 
@@ -25,8 +25,14 @@ Welcome to GNU Radio!
 As of August 3, 2006 we have restructured the GNU Radio build process
 and moved the source code repository from CVS to subversion.
 
+
 Please see http://gnuradio.org/trac for the wiki, bug tracking,
-and source code viewer.
+and source code viewer.  If you've got questions about GNU Radio, please
+subscribe to the discuss-gnuradio mailing list and post your questions
+there.  http://gnuradio.org/trac/wiki/MailingLists
+There is also a "Build Guide" in the wiki that contains OS specific
+recommendations.  See http://gnuradio.org/trac/wiki/BuildGuide
+
 
 The bleeding edge code can be found in our subversion repository at
 http://gnuradio.org/svn.  To checkout the latest, use this
@@ -242,14 +248,6 @@ installed version of python.
 You may want to add this to your shell init file (~/.bash_profile if
 you use bash).
 
-Note that on Fedora Core 4 and 5 when running on X86_64 machines,
-python is shippped with a strange (wrong) configuration that requires
-you to add both the lib64 and lib paths to your PYTHONPATH.
-E.g.,
-
-  $ export PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib64/python2.4/site-packages:/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages
-
-[Don't complain to us, complain to the Fedora Core packagers.]
 
 
 Another handy trick if for example your fftw includes and libs are