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-When Guile is obtained from CVS, a few extra steps must be taken
-before the usual configure, make, make install.  You will need to have
-up-to-date versions of the tools listed in HACKING (see below),
-correctly installed.  i.e., they must be found in the current PATH and
-not shadowed or otherwise broken by files left behind from other
-versions.
-
-"up-to-date" means the latest released versions at the time that Guile
-was obtained from CVS.  Sometimes older or newer versions will work.
-
-In addition to the guile/guile-core module that holds the main
-sources, you also need the two modules guile/guile-scripts and
-guile/workbook.  For example, you can use this command to check out
-all three modules:
-
-  $ cvs -d:ext:anoncvs@savannah.gnu.org:/cvsroot/guile \
-    co guile/guile-core guile/guile-scripts guile/workbook 
-
-Then you must run the autogen.sh script in guile/guile-core:
-
-  $ cd guile/guile-core
-  $ ./autogen.sh
-
-For more information about hacking Guile and some troubleshooting
-hints, see the file HACKING.  It can be found in guile/guile-core and
-guile/workbook/build/dist-files/.