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-Copyright (C) 2001-2012  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 2001-2014 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 24.1.50 of GNU Emacs, the extensible,
+This directory tree holds version 24.3.50 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


@@ -37,13 +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'.


@@ -59,9 +64,10 @@ There are several subdirectories:
             its primitives, the redisplay code, and some basic editing
             functions).
 `lisp'      holds the Emacs Lisp code for Emacs (most everything else).
             its primitives, the redisplay code, and some basic editing
             functions).
 `lisp'      holds the Emacs Lisp code for Emacs (most everything else).

-`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 original source files for the generated files
+            in lisp/leim.  These form the library of Emacs input methods,
+            required to type international characters that 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.
 `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.