Clarify instructions in test/external_tools

diff --git a/test/external_tools/Makefile b/test/external_tools/Makefile
index fd44b8ebe20aad17ac92c875591b04a37a7e8542..d766aac4c6b7b4388a2f7fc7e8ee1a87e5e0fc57 100644 (file)
--- a/test/external_tools/Makefile
+++ b/test/external_tools/Makefile
@@ -14,5 +14,3 @@ clean:
        rm -f *.so
        rm -f *.a
        rm -f elf_creator
-
-

diff --git a/test/external_tools/README.txt b/test/external_tools/README.txt
index 28f031fb2ba13acd975d763a3192d46ecb59607d..31feddfde64ef0c8e8ff5427eb411becde1c0961 100644 (file)
--- a/test/external_tools/README.txt
+++ b/test/external_tools/README.txt
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ Some utilities that use libelf to create synthetic ELF files
 readelf is built as follows:
 
 * From binutils Git: https://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git
-* Branch binutils-2_37-branch (commit cd7ce9337f2eda1ef57abbb28e207d2458e6fcda)
-* configure, then make from the binutils/ directory
+* git fetch --all --tags
+* git co binutils-<VERSION>-branch
+* Run configure, then make
 * Built on a 64-bit Ubuntu machine