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+[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/apache/sqoop.svg?branch=trunk)](https://travis-ci.org/apache/sqoop)
+
+# Welcome to Sqoop!
+
+This is the Sqoop (SQL-to-Hadoop) tool. Sqoop allows easy imports and
+exports of data sets between databases and HDFS.
+
+## More Documentation
+
+Sqoop ships with additional documentation: a user guide and a manual page.
+
+Asciidoc sources for both of these are in `src/docs/`. Run `ant docs` to build
+the documentation. It will be created in `build/docs/`.
+
+If you got Sqoop in release form, documentation will already be built and
+available in the `docs/` directory.
+
+For more information on compiling see [COMPILING.adoc](COMPILING.adoc).
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-= Welcome to Sqoop!
-
-This is the Sqoop (SQL-to-Hadoop) tool. Sqoop allows easy imports and
-exports of data sets between databases and HDFS.
-
-
-== More Documentation
-
-Sqoop ships with additional documentation: a user guide and a manual page.
-
-Asciidoc sources for both of these are in +src/docs/+. Run +ant docs+ to build
-the documentation. It will be created in +build/docs/+.
-
-If you got Sqoop in release form, documentation will already be built and
-available in the +docs/+ directory.
-
-
-== Compiling Sqoop
-
-Compiling Sqoop requires the following tools:
-
-* Apache ant (1.9.7)
-* Java JDK 1.8
-
-Additionally, building the documentation requires these tools:
-
-* asciidoc
-* make
-* python 2.5+
-* xmlto
-* tar
-* gzip
-
-To compile Sqoop, run +ant package+. There will be a fully self-hosted build
-provided in the +build/sqoop-(version)/+ directory. 
-
-You can build just the jar by running +ant jar+.
-
-See the COMPILING.txt document for for information.
-
-== This is also an Asciidoc file!
-
-* Try running +asciidoc README.txt+
-* For more information about asciidoc, see http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/
-