Ubuntu 14.04 compilation help update:

- add patch from Hans Erik van Elburg posted on mailing-list on
  9-May-2014
- add also some documentation in README files
Hardy, Karmic, Oneiric are obsolete Ubuntu releases.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ubuntu_releases#Table_of_versions
Merge pull request #287 from thdox/fix-for-ubuntu-14.04

Fix for ubuntu 14.04