diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index f01a95b7c..951415270 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,19 @@
+1999-04-17  Jim Blandy  <jimb@savonarola.red-bean.com>
+
+	Remove all automatic readline support, to avoid copyright
+	confusion.
+	* INSTALL: Update text.
+	* NEWS: Explain the situation.
+	* configure.in: Remove configury for readline and its supporting
+	libraries.
+	* configure: Regenerated.
+
+	* README: Change URL's for automake and autoconf.
+
+	* Makefile.in, aclocal.m4: Regenerated with automake 1.4.
+	Mikael's getting different results than I am because he's got
+	libtool 1.2f installed, which I can't get my hands on.
+
 1999-03-22  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@barbara.nada.kth.se>
 
 	* New libtool: 1.2f
diff --git a/README b/README
index 303f377c8..5b90be3eb 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -87,14 +87,14 @@ are the following:
 Autoconf 2.13 --- a system for automatically generating `configure'
 	scripts from templates which list the non-portable features a
 	program would like to use.  Available in
-	"ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu".
+	"ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/autoconf"
 
 Automake 1.4 --- a system for automatically generating Makefiles that
 	conform to the (rather Byzantine) GNU coding standards.  The
 	nice thing is that it takes care of hairy targets like 'make
 	dist' and 'make distclean', and automatically generates
 	Makefile dependencies.  Automake is available in
-	"ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu".
+	"ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/automake"
 
 	Before using automake, you may need to copy `threads.m4' and
 	`guile.m4' from the top directory of the Guile core disty to
diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS
index 02ceded6d..bc5519658 100644
--- a/THANKS
+++ b/THANKS
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 The Guile core distribution:
 
-Michael Livshin implemented Dybvig's Guardians.
-Ken Raeburn made Guile use `const' in some appropriate places.
 Greg Harvey made readline highlight matching parenthesis.
+Michael Livshin implemented Dybvig's Guardians.
+Russ McManus contributed a command-line argument parser (ice-9 getopt-long).
+Ken Raeburn made Guile use `const' in some appropriate places.
 
 Bug reports and fixes from:
 
@@ -20,6 +21,7 @@ Bug reports and fixes from:
      Nicolas Neuss
    Thien-Thi Nguyen
      Richard Polton
+         Ken Raeburn
      Telford Tendys
      Bernard Urban
          Jim Wilson
diff --git a/libguile/ChangeLog b/libguile/ChangeLog
index bd5f2235d..4da24c86b 100644
--- a/libguile/ChangeLog
+++ b/libguile/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,24 @@
+1999-04-17  Jim Blandy  <jimb@savonarola.red-bean.com>
+
+	Remove readline support, to avoid copyright confusion.
+	* Makefile.in: Remove readline files from lists.
+	* init.c: Don't initialize readline.
+	* scmconfig.h.in: Regenerated.
+
+	* numbers.c (s_bignum): Renamed to s_bignum, and made static.
+	Libguile should not be exporting random little strings.
+	* numbers.h (s_bignum): Extern declaration removed.
+
+	More const changes from Ken Raeburn.
+	* numbers.c (scm_s_bignum, fx): Now const.
+	(scm_logtab, scm_ilentab, s_adjbig): Now static and const.
+	* numbers.h (scm_s_bignum): Update declaration.
+	* eval.c (bodycheck): Argument WHAT now points to const.
+	* snarf.h (SCM_SYNTAX): Name is const.
+
+	* eval.c (scm_i_let): Make this globally visible, to avoid dynamic
+	linking crashes on NetBSD.  (Thanks to Ken Raeburn.)
+
 1999-03-26  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
 
 	* numbers.c (isfinite): Define this macro if not defined: Return a