>> Seems to me like kind of a chicken-and-egg problem, though. In
>> order to build lilypond I need to read INSTALL.txt, but in order to
>> read INSTALL.txt, I need to build lilypond first... I ended up
>> googling for the file on the website and following the steps from
>> there instead.
>
> What about a README.txt file that says, "Run configure"?
I think the normal way is to have a `README.git` file that contains
the necessary first steps to build from the repository, and people
should then continue with reading `README.txt` after it has been
created.
Werner
