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-****************************************************************************************
-**  DO NOT RUN THE APPIMAGE BUILD ON A PRODUCTION MACHINE!  IT WILL ERASE YOUR DATA!  **
-****************************************************************************************
-
-The tooling in this directory can be used to build an AppImage, the entire Citadel System
-distributed as a single binary file.  Visit https://appimage.org/ to learn more about the
-AppImage format and how it works.
-
-Again, do NOT try to build this on your production machine.  For that matter, don't try
-to build it on anything other than a dedicated build host.  It may ERASE data you
-intended to keep.
-
-If you're an end user you shouldn't have any need to do this at all.  The whole point of
-this is that we can supply ready-to-run binaries that will run on any Linux/Linux system
-without modification or dependencies.  If you are an end user, stop here, go download the
-binary package, and use it.  Enjoy it and have fun.
-
-Still with us?  Then you must be a new member of the build team.  So here's what you have
-to do to build the binary:
-
-1. Download the Citadel source tree (if you're reading this, you've already done that).
-2. Install all system dependencies.  The same ones needed for Easy Install are fine.
-3. Download and install "appimagetool" from appimage.org.
-4. Run "./build_appimage.sh"
-
-What's going to happen next?
-
-1. Any existing /usr/local/citadel and /usr/local/webcit will be erased.
-2. The script will go through the source tree, building and installing libcitadel,
-   the Citadel server, and WebCit into the /usr/local hierarchy.
-3. All binaries, static data, and libraries will be copied into the citadel.AppDir
-   tree.
-4. appimagetool will be called, and it will generate an executable with a
-   name like "Citadel-x64.AppImage".   This is your distributable binary.  Upload
-   it somewhere fun.
-
-You should be running this build on the OLDEST version of Linux/Linux on which your
-binary should be able to run.  The distribution does not matter -- for example, a
-binary built on Debian should run fine on Ubuntu or Red Hat or whatever -- but the C
-library and other very base system libraries are only upward compatible, not downward
-compatible.  For example, at the time of this writing, I am building on Ubuntu 16 and
-it's early 2021.