--- a/hotspot/src/share/tools/hsdis/README	Thu Sep 20 03:49:15 2012 -0700
+++ b/hotspot/src/share/tools/hsdis/README	Mon Sep 24 12:44:00 2012 -0700
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Copyright (c) 2008, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+Copyright (c) 2008, 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
 DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
   
 This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
@@ -38,8 +38,14 @@
 one of it's mirrors.  Builds targetting windows should use at least
 2.19 and currently requires the use of a cross compiler.
 
+Binutils should be configured with the '--disable-nls' flag to disable
+Native Language Support, otherwise you might get an "undefined
+reference to `libintl_gettext'" if you try to load hsdis.so on systems
+which don't have NLS by default.  It also avoids build problems on
+other configurations that don't include the full NLS support.
+
 The makefile looks for the sources in build/binutils or you can
-specify it's location to the makefile using BINTUILS=path.  It will
+specify it's location to the makefile using BINUTILS=path.  It will
 configure binutils and build it first and then build and link the
 disasembly adapter.  Make all will build the default target for your
 platform.  If you platform support both 32 and 64 simultaneously then