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<p>
+These installation instructions are for using the distributed tarball,
+for example, <tt>swig-3.0.8.tar.gz</tt>.
+If you wish to build and install from source on Github, extra steps are required.
+Please see the <a href="http://swig.org/svn.html">Bleeding Edge</a> page on the SWIG website.
+</p>
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+<p>
You must use <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/make/">GNU make</a> to build and install SWIG.
</p>