Drop autogen.sh: Do use autoconf

Automake is changing and some of the stuff in autogen.sh is expected to fail
soon:
https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Future-of-aclocal.html

"autoreconf -if" will overwrite the INSTALL file, so its content is now in the
README file.

Added NEWS warning

Adjusted .gitignore

.gitignore

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ dumptypes.h
 Makefile.in
 Makefile
 doc/*.1
+INSTALL
 include/config.h
 include/config.h.in
 include/mdbver.h

NEWS

@@ -1,15 +1,17 @@
 Version 0.7.1
 =============
-An experimental (buggy) version of ODBC driver that supports UCS-2 interface
-is now available: libmdbodbcW.so
-Note that libmdbodbc supports UTF-8 really well, so that this is usually not
-needed.
+autogen.sh is no more. Use "autoreconf" -if to bootstrap the configuration.
 
-autoconf/automake has been updates to more recent standards.
+autoconf/automake has been updated to more recent standards.
 - config.guess  config.sub  depcomp  install-sh  ltmain.sh  missing  ylwrap
   files are now in build-aux/ directory
 You'll now need autoconf >= 2.58
 
+An experimental (buggy) version of ODBC driver that supports UCS-2 interface
+is now available: libmdbodbcW.so
+Note that libmdbodbc supports UTF-8 really well, so that this is usually not
+needed.
+
 Version 0.3
 ===========
 The organization of the project files has changed a bit from that last release.

README

@@ -6,8 +6,26 @@ pieces are:
 
 . libmdb    - the core library that allows access to MDB files programatically.
 . libmdbsql - builds on libmdb to provide a SQL engine (aka Jet)
-. utils     - provides command line utilities to list tables, export schema, 
-              and data, show the version of the files, and other useful stuff.
+. utils     - provides command line utilities:
+              mdb-ver    -- prints the version (JET 3 or 4) of an mdb file.
+              mdb-dump   -- simple hex dump utility that I've been using to look
+                            at mdb files.
+              mdb-schema -- prints DDL for the specified table.
+              mdb-export -- export table to CSV format.
+              mdb-tables -- a simple dump of table names to be used with shell
+                            scripts
+              mdb-header -- generates a C header to be used in exporting mdb
+                            data to a C prog.
+              mdb-parsecvs -- generates a C program given a CSV file made with
+                            mdb-export
+              mdb-sql    -- if --enable-sql is specified, a simple SQL engine
+                            (also used by ODBC and gmdb).
+            - And some utilities useful for debugging:
+              prcat      -- prints the catalog table from an mdb file.
+              prkkd      -- dump of information about design view data given the offset to it.
+              prtable    -- dump of a table definition.
+              prdata     -- dump of the data given a table name.
+              prole      -- dump of ole columns given a table name and sargs.
 . mdb-sql   - a command line SQL tool that allows one to type sql queries and
               get results.
 . odbc      - An ODBC driver for use with unixODBC or iODBC driver manager.
@@ -20,16 +38,83 @@ where the code stands and what has been gleened of the file format.
 
 The initial goal of these tools is to be able to extract data structures and 
 data from mdb files.  This goal will of course expand over time as the file 
-format becomes more well understood.  
+format becomes more well understood.
 
-Files in libmdb, libmdbsql, and libmdbodbc are licensed under LGPL and the 
-utilities and gui program are under the GPL, see COPYING.LIB and COPYING files 
+Files in libmdb, libmdbsql, and libmdbodbc are licensed under LGPL and the
+utilities and gui program are under the GPL, see COPYING.LIB and COPYING files
 respectively.
 
-To install see the INSTALL file
 
-Check out https://github.com/brianb/mdbtools for latest version of sources.
-Check out http://mdbtools.sourceforge.net for mailing list and similar.
+Requirements:
+=============
+
+First, you must have reasonably current installations of:
+	libtool
+	automake
+	autoconf (version >= 2.58)
+If you don't you should install them first. Sources are available at
+ftp.gnu.org.
+
+If you want to build the SQL engine, you'll need bison or byacc, and flex.
+
+If you want to build the ODBC driver, you'll need unixodbc (version 2.2.10 or
+above) or iodbc.
+
+If you want to build man pages, you'll need txt2man. Source is available at
+http://mvertes.free.fr/download/.
+
+If you want to generate the html version of the docbook, you'll need openjade
+and basic dsl catalogs.
+
+
+Installation from source:
+=========================
+
+Last version is available at https://github.com/brianb/mdbtools
+
+  $ autoreconf -i -f
+
+If you want to build the html version of the docbook documentation, you need to
+set the environment variable DOCBOOK_DSL to the modular dsl translation file.
+For exemple, before configure, you need something like:
+
+  $ export DOCBOOK_DSL=/usr/share/sgml/docbook/stylesheet/dsssl/modular/html/docbook.dsl
+
+  $ ./configure
+
+OR for a complete install (requires bison, flex, and unixODBC):
+
+  $ ./configure --with-unixodbc=/usr/local
+
+configure can be passed any of the following flags to turn on other 
+capabilities.  Note that the options --with-unixodbc and --with-iodbc are
+mutually exclusive.
+--with-unixodbc  specifies the location of the unixODBC driver manager and 
+                 causes the unixODBC driver to be built.
+--with-iodbc     specifies the location of the iODBC driver manager and 
+                 causes the iODBC driver to be built.
+A list of general options is available in the INSTALL file, and
+"configure --help" will give you the list of mdbtools specific options.
+
+  $ make
+
+Once MDB Tools has been compiled, libmdb.[so|a] will be in the src/libmdb 
+directory and the utility programs will be in the src/util directory.
+
+You can then run 'make install' as root to install (to /usr/local by default).
+Some systems will also need the ld cache to be updated after installation;
+You can do that running 'ldconfig' as root.
+
+
+Contacts
+========
+
+The mailing list from the old site a available at
+http://mdbtools.sourceforge.net
+
+Please send bug repports to the new github platform.
+https://github.com/brianb/mdbtools/issues
+
 
 Brian Bruns
 brian@bruns.com