Merge from emacs-24; up to 2012-12-21T07:35:02Z!ueno@gnu.org

[gnu-emacs] / nt / INSTALL

diff --git a/nt/INSTALL b/nt/INSTALL
index 2293610adf3b71a9b7c1add83fec870cd5ec2012..0c4b50f0c284819fa09095c1f31bd5c5feccffd9 100644 (file)
--- a/nt/INSTALL
+++ b/nt/INSTALL
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
                    Building and Installing Emacs on Windows
                           (from 95 to 7 and beyond)
 
-  Copyright (C) 2001-2012  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+  Copyright (C) 2001-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   See the end of the file for license conditions.
 
 * For the impatient
@@ -110,12 +110,14 @@
   WinZip is known to create some subtle and hard to debug problems,
   such as converting files to DOS CR-LF format, not creating empty
   directories, etc.  We suggest to use djtarnt.exe from the GNU FTP
-  site.
+  site.  For modern formats, such as .tar.xz, we suggest bsdtar.exe
+  from the libarchive package; its precompiled Windows binaries are
+  available from this site:
+
+    http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/
 
-  In addition to this file, you should also read INSTALL.BZR in the
-  parent directory, and make sure that you have a version of
-  "touch.exe" in your path, and that it will create files that do not
-  yet exist.
+  In addition to this file, if you build a development snapshot, you
+  should also read INSTALL.BZR in the parent directory.
 
 * Supported development environments