Remove all references to sync-all

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 20 deletions

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 32234c0d24..5ad1adb6d0 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -26,21 +26,18 @@ There are two ways to get a source tree:
 
  2. *Check out the source code from git*
 
-  The official mirror for GHC on GitHub is located at https://github.com/ghc/ghc.
+        $ git clone --recursive git://git.haskell.org/ghc.git
 
-        $ git clone git://github.com/ghc/ghc.git
-        $ cd ghc
-        $ ./sync-all get
+  On Windows, you need an extra repository containing some build tools:
 
-  If you want to clone your own fork instead, add an argument to `sync-all` to
-  tell it where it can find the other repositories it needs.
+        $ cd ghc/
+        $ git clone git://git.haskell.org/ghc-tarballs.git
 
-        $ git clone <your preferred github.com GHC fork URL> ghc
-        $ cd ghc
-        $ ./sync-all -r git://github.com/ghc get
+  Note: cloning GHC from Github requires a special setup. See [Getting a GHC
+  repository from Github] [7].
 
   **DO NOT submit pull request directly to the github repo.**
-  *See the GHC developer team's working conventions re [contributing patches](http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/WorkingConventions/Git#Contributingpatches "ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/WorkingConventions/Git#Contributingpatches").*
+  *See the GHC team's working conventions re [how to contribute a patch to GHC](http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/WorkingConventions/FixingBugs "ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/WorkingConventions/FixingBug").*
 
 
 Building & Installing
@@ -64,7 +61,7 @@ dblatex.
 
 **Quick start**: the following gives you a default build:
 
-    $ perl boot
+    $ ./boot
     $ ./configure
     $ make         # can also say 'make -jX' for X number of jobs
     $ make install
@@ -74,7 +71,7 @@ save you hours of build time depending on your system configuration, and is
 almost always a win regardless of how many cores you have. As a simple rule,
 you should have about N+1 jobs, where `N` is the amount of cores you have.)
 
-The `perl boot` step is only necessary if this is a tree checked out
+The `./boot` step is only necessary if this is a tree checked out
 from git.  For source distributions downloaded from [GHC's web site] [1],
 this step has already been performed.
 
@@ -82,12 +79,6 @@ These steps give you the default build, which includes everything
 optimised and built in various ways (eg. profiling libs are built).
 It can take a long time.  To customise the build, see the file `HACKING`.
 
-Once you have a build you need to keep it going.  You need to keep all
-repos in sync with the [sync-all script] [7].  To get the latest changes:
-
-    $ ./sync-all pull
-    $ ./sync-all get
-
 Filing bugs and feature requests
 ================================
 
@@ -125,8 +116,8 @@ you to join!
   [4]:  http://www.haskell.org/happy/          "www.haskell.org/happy/"
   [5]:  http://www.haskell.org/alex/           "www.haskell.org/alex/"
   [6]:  http://www.haskell.org/haddock/        "www.haskell.org/haddock/"
-  [7]:  http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/SyncAll
-          "http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/SyncAll"
+  [7]: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/GettingTheSources#GettingaGHCrepositoryfromGitHub
+          "https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/GettingTheSources#GettingaGHCrepositoryfromGitHub"
   [8]:  http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation
           "http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation"
   [9]:  http://www.haskell.org/cabal/          "http://www.haskell.org/cabal/"