Update references to README files

Most of the README files have been renamed. Refer to the new names.

Update references to README files
Most of the README files have been renamed. Refer to the new names.
Jay Berkenbilt
1 parent dba22845
Showing 9 changed files with 32 additions and 22 deletions
ChangeLog
README-maintainer.md
README-what-to-download.md
README.md
configure.ac
libqpdf/SecureRandomDataProvider.cc
make/exec-z
make_dist
manual/qpdf-manual.xml
+2017-08-22  Jay Berkenbilt  <ejb@ql.org>
+
+	* Convert all README files to markdown. Names changed as follows:
+	  - README --> README.md
+	  - README.hardening --> README-hardening.md
+	  - README.maintainer --> README-maintainer.md
+	  - README-what-to-download.txt --> README-what-to-download.md
+	  - README-windows.txt --> README-windows.md
+	  The file README-windows-install.txt remains a text file.
+
 2017-08-21  Jay Berkenbilt  <ejb@ql.org>
 	* Add support for writing PCLm files. Most of the work was done by
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Release Reminders
    properly handled.
  * Remember to avoid using operator[] with std::string or
-   std::vector.  See README.hardening for details.
+   std::vector.  See README-hardening.md for details.
  * Increment shared library version information as needed (LT_* in
    configure.ac)
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ Release Reminders
  * Before releasing, rebuild and test debian package.
- * Remember to copy README-what-to-download.txt separately onto the
+ * Remember to copy README-what-to-download.md separately onto the
    download area.
  * Remember to update the web page including putting new documentation
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ download.
    If you want to build qpdf for Windows yourself with either MINGW or
    MSVC 2010, you can download this file and extract it inside the
-   qpdf source distribution.  Please refer to README-windows.txt in
+   qpdf source distribution.  Please refer to README-windows.md in
    the qpdf source distribution for additional details.  Note that you
    need the 2012-06-20 version or later to be able to build qpdf 3.0
    or newer.  The 2009-10-24 version is required for qpdf 2.3.1 or
@@ -51,6 +51,6 @@ download.
    libary, it includes a README file and some scripts to help you
    build it for Windows. qpdf was built using a binary distribution of
    libjpeg-turbo for Windows. You will also have to provide those. See
-   README-windows.txt for details.
+   README-windows.md for details.
-If you want to build on Windows, please see also README-windows.txt.
+If you want to build on Windows, please see also README-windows.md.
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ QPDF depends on the external libraries &quot;zlib&quot; and &quot;jpeg&quot;. These are
 part of every Linux distribution and are readily available. Download
 information appears in the documentation. For Windows, you can
 download pre-built binary versions of these libraries for some
-compilers; see README-windows.txt for additional details.
+compilers; see README-windows.md for additional details.
 QPDF requires a C++ compiler that works with STL.  Your compiler must
 also support "long long".  Almost all modern compilers do.  If you are
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ Building from a pristine checkout
 When building qpdf from a pristine checkout from version control,
 documentation and automatically generated files are not present.
 Building on Windows from a pristine checkout is not guaranteed to work
-because of issues running autoconf; see README-windows.txt for how to
+because of issues running autoconf; see README-windows.md for how to
 handle this.  For UNIX and UNIX-like systems, you must have some
 addditional tools installed to build from the source repository.  To
 do this, you should run
@@ -124,8 +124,8 @@ QPDF is known to build and pass its test suite with mingw (latest
 version tested: gcc 4.6.2), mingw64 (latest version tested: 4.7.0) and
 Microsoft Visual C++ 2010, both 32-bit and 64-bit versions.  MSYS plus
 ActiveState Perl is required to build as well in order to get make
-and other related tools.  See README-windows.txt for details on how to
-build under Windows, see README-windows.txt.
+and other related tools.  See README-windows.md for details on how to
+build under Windows, see README-windows.md.
 Additional Notes on Build
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ obeying the compiler specified with configure.  This can be enabled by
 passing --with-buildrules=buildrules where buildrules corresponds to
 one of the .mk files (other than rules.mk) in the make directory.
 This should never be necessary on a UNIX system, but may be necessary
-on a Windows system.  See README-windows.txt for details.  There is a
+on a Windows system.  See README-windows.md for details.  There is a
 gcc-linux.mk file enable "gcc-linux" build rules, but it is intended
 to help test the build system; Linux users should build with the
 "libtools" rules, which are enabled by default.
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ AC_MSG_CHECKING(which build rules to use)
 AC_SUBST(BUILDRULES)
 AC_ARG_WITH(buildrules,
    AS_HELP_STRING([--with-buildrules=rules],
-		  [which build rules to use; see README]),
+		  [which build rules to use; see README.md]),
    [BUILDRULES=$withval],
    [BUILDRULES=libtool])
 AC_MSG_RESULT($BUILDRULES)
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ SecureRandomDataProvider::provideRandomData(unsigned char* data, size_t len)
 #else
-#  error "Don't know how to generate secure random numbers on this platform.  See random number generation in the top-level README"
+#  error "Don't know how to generate secure random numbers on this platform.  See random number generation in the top-level README.md"
 #endif
 }
 #!/bin/sh
-# This script is used for valgrind testing. See README.maintainer.
+# This script is used for valgrind testing. See README-maintainer.md.
 # Create a suppressions file. This can be updated by running valgrind
 # with --gen-suppressions=yes.
 #!/usr/bin/env perl
 #
 # This program creates a source distribution of qpdf.  For details,
-# see README.maintainer.
+# see README-maintainer.md.
 #
 require 5.008;
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@
   <title>Building and Installing QPDF</title>
   <para>
    This chapter describes how to build and install qpdf.  Please see
-   also the <filename>README</filename> and
+   also the <filename>README.md</filename> and
    <filename>INSTALL</filename> files in the source distribution.
   </para>
   <sect1 id="ref.prerequisites">
@@ -210,17 +210,17 @@ make
     configured.  You can also set the value of
     <varname>DESTDIR</varname> during installation to install to a
     temporary location, as is common with many open source packages.
-    Please see also the <filename>README</filename> and
+    Please see also the <filename>README.md</filename> and
     <filename>INSTALL</filename> files in the source distribution.
    </para>
    <para>
     Building on Windows is a little bit more complicated.  For
-    details, please see <filename>README-windows.txt</filename> in the
+    details, please see <filename>README-windows.md</filename> in the
     source distribution.  You can also download a binary distribution
     for Windows.  There is a port of qpdf to Visual C++ version 6 in
     the <filename>contrib</filename> area generously contributed by
     Jian Ma.  This is also discussed in more detail in
-    <filename>README-windows.txt</filename>.
+    <filename>README-windows.md</filename>.
    </para>
    <para>
     There are some other things you can do with the build.  Although
@@ -2102,7 +2102,7 @@ outfile.pdf&lt;/option&gt;
     would enable you to use some software-based secure pseudorandom
     number generator and to avoid use of whatever the operating system
     provides.  For details on how to do this, please refer to the
-    top-level README file in the source distribution and to comments
+    top-level README.md file in the source distribution and to comments
     in <filename>QUtil.hh</filename>.
    </para>
   </sect1>
@@ -3256,7 +3256,7 @@ print &quot;\n&quot;;
            converts numbers to strings.  This is largely invisible to
            users, but it does trigger a bug in some older versions of
            mingw-w64's C++ library.  See
-           <filename>README-windows.txt</filename> in the source
+           <filename>README-windows.md</filename> in the source
            distribution if you think this may affect you.  The copy of
            the DLL distributed with qpdf's binary distribution is not
            affected by this problem.
@@ -3677,7 +3677,7 @@ print &quot;\n&quot;;
         not needed to verify a correct build or port of qpdf.  They
         are needed only when changing the actual PDF output generated
         by qpdf.  You should enable them if you are making deep
-        changes to qpdf itself.  See <filename>README</filename> for
+        changes to qpdf itself.  See <filename>README.md</filename> for
         details.
        </para>
       </listitem>
@@ -3686,7 +3686,7 @@ print &quot;\n&quot;;
         Large file tests are off by default but can be turned on with
         <command>./configure</command> or by setting an environment
         variable before running the test suite.  See
-        <filename>README</filename> for details.
+        <filename>README.md</filename> for details.
        </para>
       </listitem>
       <listitem>