Mentioning the platform specific readmes

diff --git a/README b/README
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+++ b/README
@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ the "./autogen.sh" command, which calls in turn a number of other
 programs such as automake and autoconf.  See INSTALL for more
 details. 
 
+For platform specific instructions please read the README file that
+is associated with that platform (e.g. for Mac OS X read README.osx)
+
 
 Required Dependencies
 =====================