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@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
-Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009,
-  2010, 2011  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 2001-2012  Free Software Foundation, Inc.

 See the end of the file for license conditions.
 
 
 See the end of the file for license conditions.
 
 

-This directory tree holds version 23.2.94 of GNU Emacs, the extensible,
+This directory tree holds version 24.2.91 of GNU Emacs, the extensible,

 customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor.
 
 The file INSTALL in this directory says how to build and install GNU
 customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor.
 
 The file INSTALL in this directory says how to build and install GNU


@@ -38,13 +37,18 @@ oddities of your processor and operating system.  It creates the file
 process of building and installing Emacs.  See INSTALL for more
 detailed information.
 
 process of building and installing Emacs.  See INSTALL for more
 detailed information.
 

-The file `configure.in' is the input used by the autoconf program to
+The file `configure.ac' is the input used by the autoconf program to

 construct the `configure' script.  Since Emacs has some configuration
 requirements that autoconf can't meet directly, and for historical
 construct the `configure' script.  Since Emacs has some configuration
 requirements that autoconf can't meet directly, and for historical

-reasons, `configure.in' uses an unholy marriage of custom-baked
-configuration code and autoconf macros.  If you want to rebuild
-`configure' from `configure.in', you will need to install a recent
-version of autoconf and GNU m4.
+reasons, `configure.ac' uses an unholy marriage of custom-baked
+configuration code and autoconf macros.
+
+The shell script `autogen.sh' generates 'configure' and other files by
+running the GNU build tools autoconf and automake, which in turn use
+GNU m4 and Perl.  If you want to use it, you will need to install
+recent versions of these build tools.  This should be needed only if
+you edit files like `configure.ac' that specify Emacs's autobuild
+procedure.

 
 The file `Makefile.in' is a template used by `configure' to create
 `Makefile'.
 
 The file `Makefile.in' is a template used by `configure' to create
 `Makefile'.


@@ -63,6 +67,7 @@ There are several subdirectories:
 `leim'      holds the library of Emacs input methods, Lisp code and
             auxiliary data files required to type international characters
             which can't be directly produced by your keyboard.
 `leim'      holds the library of Emacs input methods, Lisp code and
             auxiliary data files required to type international characters
             which can't be directly produced by your keyboard.

+`lib'       holds source code for libraries used by Emacs and its utilities

 `lib-src'   holds the source code for some utility programs for use by or
             with Emacs, like movemail and etags.
 `etc'       holds miscellaneous architecture-independent data files Emacs
 `lib-src'   holds the source code for some utility programs for use by or
             with Emacs, like movemail and etags.
 `etc'       holds miscellaneous architecture-independent data files Emacs


@@ -88,6 +93,14 @@ There are several subdirectories:
 of the standard distribution of the OS.  The platform-specific README
 files and installation instructions should list the required tools.
 
 of the standard distribution of the OS.  The platform-specific README
 files and installation instructions should list the required tools.
 

+\f
+NOTE ON COPYRIGHT YEARS
+
+In copyright notices where the copyright holder is the Free Software
+Foundation, then where a range of years appears, this is an inclusive
+range that applies to every year in the range.  For example: 2005-2008
+represents the years 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008.
+

 \f
 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
 
 \f
 This file is part of GNU Emacs.