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+2000-06-07  Phillip Thomas  <pthomas@suse.de>
+
+	* README-maintainer-mode: New file: Contains notes on using
+	--enable-maintainer-mode with binutils.
+
 Mon May 29 13:50:03 2000  Andrew Cagney  <cagney@b1.cygnus.com>
 
 	* texinfo/texinfo.tex: Update. Version from makeinfo 4.0.
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+
+                Notes on enabling maintainer mode
+
+Note that if you configure with --enable-maintainer-mode, you will need
+special versions of automake, autoconf, libtool and gettext. You will
+find the sources for these in ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/binutils.