fix some cross-compile issues from linux, touch up README

README.md

@@ -11,13 +11,38 @@ Supports
 * Gauges (including relative operations)
 * Sets
 
+Note: Only integers are supported for metric values.
+
 [![Build Status](https://secure.travis-ci.org/bitly/statsdaemon.png)](http://travis-ci.org/bitly/statsdaemon)
 
 Installing
 ==========
 
-```bash
-go get github.com/bitly/statsdaemon
+You can download either pre-compiled binaries or the source of the latest [release](https://github.com/bitly/statsdaemon/releases).
+
+Binary Example:
+```
+wget 'https://github.com/bitly/statsdaemon/releases/download/v0.6-alpha/statsdaemon-0.6-alpha.linux-amd64.go1.3.tar.gz'
+tar xpf statsdaemon-0.6-alpha.linux-amd64.go1.3.tar.gz
+cd statsdaemon-0.6-alpha.linux-amd64.go1.3
+./statsdaemon --help
+```
+
+Source Example:
+```
+wget 'https://github.com/bitly/statsdaemon/archive/v0.6-alpha.tar.gz'
+tar xpf v0.6-alpha.tar.gz
+cd statsdaemon-0.6-alpha
+go build
+./statsdaemon-0.6-alpha --help
+```
+
+To work with the latest dev code, just clone master and build.
+```
+git clone https://github.com/bitly/statsdaemon.git
+cd statsdaemon
+go build
+./statsdaemon --help
 ```
 
 Command Line Options

dist.sh

@@ -1,13 +1,12 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
 # build binary distributions for linux/amd64 and darwin/amd64
-set -e 
+set -e
 
 DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
 echo "working dir $DIR"
 mkdir -p $DIR/dist
 
-os=$(go env GOOS)
 arch=$(go env GOARCH)
 version=$(cat $DIR/version.go | grep "const VERSION" | awk '{print $NF}' | sed 's/"//g')
 goversion=$(go version | awk '{print $3}')
@@ -17,7 +16,7 @@ echo "... running tests"
 
 for os in linux darwin; do
     echo "... building v$version for $os/$arch"
-    BUILD=$(mktemp -d -t statsdaemon)
+    BUILD=$(mktemp -d -t statsdaemon.XXXXXXXX)
     TARGET="statsdaemon-$version.$os-$arch.$goversion"
     GOOS=$os GOARCH=$arch CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -o $BUILD/$TARGET/statsdaemon || exit 1
     pushd $BUILD