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### Subversion
-Stable branches for older Ruby versions can be checked out with the following command:
+Stable branches for older Ruby versions can be checked out with also the
+following command:
$ svn co https://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/branches/ruby_2_6/ ruby
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subscribe
-in the mail body (not subject) to the address
-[ruby-talk-request@ruby-lang.org](mailto:ruby-talk-request@ruby-lang.org?subject=Join%20Ruby%20Mailing%20List&body=subscribe).
+in the mail body (not subject) to the address [ruby-talk-request@ruby-lang.org].
+
+[ruby-talk-request@ruby-lang.org]: mailto:ruby-talk-request@ruby-lang.org?subject=Join%20Ruby%20Mailing%20List&body=subscribe
## How to compile and install
1. If you want to use Microsoft Visual C++ to compile Ruby, read
[win32/README.win32](win32/README.win32) instead of this document.
-2. Run `autoreconf -i` to (re)generate configure.
+2. Run `./autogen.sh` to generate configure, when you build the source checked
+ out from the Git repository.
3. Run `./configure`, which will generate `config.h` and `Makefile`.