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-Ninja is a small build system closest in spirit to Make.
+Ninja is a small build system with a focus on speed.
+http://martine.github.com/ninja/
See the manual -- http://martine.github.com/ninja/manual.html or
-manual.asciidoc included in the distribution -- for more background,
-including motivation and build instructions.
+doc/manual.asciidoc included in the distribution -- for background
+and more details.
-Though the code is copyright Google, don't take that as an
-endorsement; I wrote this in my spare time for fun.
+To build, run ./bootstrap.sh. It first blindly compiles all non-test
+source files together, then re-builds Ninja using itself. You should
+end up with a 'ninja' binary in the source root. Run './ninja -h' for
+help.
+
+There is no installation step. The only file of interest to a user
+is the resulting ninja binary.
-Discussions about Ninja should take place on the mailing list:
-http://groups.google.com/group/ninja-build