Document the special build considerations for building from a CVS

checkout instead of a packaged source distribution.
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as beta software. Releases with even minor version numbers are
intended to be production grade software.
To build Expat, you first run the configuration shell script in the
top level distribution directory:
If you are building Expat from a check-out from the CVS repository,
you need to run a script that generates the configure script using the
GNU autoconf and libtool tools. To do this, you need to have
autoconf 2.52 or newer and libtool 1.4 or newer. Run the script like
this:
./buildconf.sh
Once this has been done, follow the same instructions as for building
from a source distribution.
To build Expat from a source distribution, you first run the
configuration shell script in the top level distribution directory:
./configure