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+[![Build Status](https://img.shields.io/travis/google/glog/master.svg?label=Travis)](https://travis-ci.org/google/glog/builds)
+[![Grunt status](https://img.shields.io/appveyor/ci/google-admin/glog/master.svg?label=Appveyor)](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/google-admin/glog/history)
+
+This repository contains a C++ implementation of the Google logging
+module.  Documentation for the implementation is in doc/.
+
+See INSTALL for (generic) installation instructions for C++: basically
+```sh
+./autogen.sh && ./configure && make && make install
+```