+BASIC INSTALLATION
+
+The simplest way to build Emacs is to use the `configure' shell script
+which attempts to guess correct values for various system-dependent
+variables and features and find the directories where various system
+headers and libraries are kept. It then creates a `Makefile' in each
+subdirectory and a `config.h' file containing system-dependent
+definitions. Running the `make' utility then builds the package for
+your system.
+
+Here's the procedure to build Emacs using `configure' on systems which
+are supported by it. If this simplified procedure fails, or if you
+are using a platform such as MS-Windows, where `configure' script
+doesn't work, you might need to use various non-default options, and
+maybe perform some of the steps manually. The more detailed
+description in the rest of the sections of this guide will help you do
+that, so please refer to them if the simple procedure does not work.
+
+ 1. If you want to be able to input international characters which
+ your keyboard doesn't support directly (i.e. you cannot type
+ them at the shell prompt), download the leim-M.N.tar.gz
+ distribution and unpack it into the same directory where you have
+ unpacked the main Emacs distribution. See ADDITIONAL
+ DISTRIBUTION FILES, below, for more about this.
+
+ 2. Make sure your system has at least 120 MB of free disk space.
+
+ 3a. `cd' to the directory where you unpacked Emacs and invoke the
+ `configure' script:
+
+ ./configure
+
+ 3b. Alternatively, create a separate directory, outside the source
+ directory, where you want to build Emacs, and invoke `configure'
+ from there:
+
+ SOURCE-DIR/configure
+
+ where SOURCE-DIR is the top-level Emacs source directory. This
+ may not work unless you use GNU make.
+
+ 4. When `configure' finishes, it prints several lines of details
+ about the system configuration. Read those details carefully
+ looking for anything suspicious, such as wrong CPU and operating
+ system names, wrong places for headers or libraries, missing
+ libraries that you know are installed on your system, etc.
+
+ If you find anything wrong, you will have to pass to `configure'
+ explicit machine configuration name, and one or more options
+ which tell it where to find various headers and libraries; refer
+ to DETAILED BUILDING AND INSTALLATION section below.
+
+ If `configure' didn't find some image support libraries, such as
+ Xpm, jpeg, etc., and you want to use them refer to the subsection
+ "Image support libraries", below.
+
+ If the details printed by `configure' don't make any sense to
+ you, assume that `configure' did its job and proceed.
+
+ 5. If you need to run the `configure' script more than once (e.g.,
+ with some non-default options), always clean the source
+ directories before running `configure' again:
+
+ make distclean
+ ./configure
+
+ 6. Invoke the `make' program:
+
+ make
+
+ 7. If `make' succeeds, it will build an executable program `emacs'
+ in the `src' directory. You can try this program, to make sure
+ it works:
+
+ src/emacs -q
+
+ 8. Assuming that the program `src/emacs' starts and displays its
+ opening screen, you can install the program and its auxiliary
+ files into their installation directories:
+
+ make install
+
+ You are now ready to use Emacs. If you wish to conserve disk space,
+ you may remove the program binaries and object files from the
+ directory where you built Emacs:
+
+ make clean
+
+ You can also save some space by compressing (with `gzip') Info files
+ and installed Lisp source (.el) files which have corresponding .elc
+ versions.
+
+
+ADDITIONAL DISTRIBUTION FILES
+
+* leim-M.N.tar.gz
+
+The Emacs Lisp code for input methods for various international
+character scripts allows you to input characters in scripts which are
+not directly supported by your keyboard. It is distributed in a
+separate tar file because it amounts to a significant fraction of the
+size of the distribution. This tar file is called leim-M.N.tar.gz,
+with the same version number as Emacs, and it unpacks into the
+directory emacs-M.N/leim.
+
+You should unpack leim-M.N.tar.gz into the same directory where you
+have previously unpacked the main Emacs distribution. It fills in the
+contents of one subdirectory, which is present in the main Emacs
+distribution only in dummy form.
+
+Once you have unpacked the Leim tar file into the Emacs source tree,
+building and installing Emacs automatically installs the input method
+support as well. If you have built Emacs without unpacking Leim
+first, just unpack Leim, build Emacs again, and install it again.
+
+* intlfonts-VERSION.tar.gz
+
+The intlfonts distribution contains X11 fonts that Emacs needs in
+order to display international characters. If you see a non-ASCII
+character appear as a hollow box, that means you don't have a font for
+it. You might find a font in the intlfonts distribution. If you do
+have a font for a non-ASCII character, but some characters don't look
+right, or appear improperly aligned, a font from the intlfonts
+distribution might look better.
+
+The fonts in the intlfonts distribution are also used by the ps-print
+package for printing international characters. The file
+lisp/ps-mule.el defines the *.bdf font files required for printing
+each character set.
+
+The intlfonts distribution contains its own installation instructions,
+in the intlfonts/README file.
+
+* elisp-manual-M.N.tar.gz
+
+This distribution contains the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual which
+complements the Emacs Manual. (The Emacs Manual is accessible from
+within the editor by typing "C-h i", then selecting the "Emacs" item
+from the menu, or by clicking "Help" in the menu bar and selecting
+"Read Emacs Manual".) It is a good idea to install the Emacs Lisp
+Reference Manual after installing Emacs, to complete the on-line
+documentation of Emacs in Info.
+
+If you have installed Texinfo, you can install the Emacs Lisp
+Reference Manual this way (after unpacking the elisp-manual-M.N.tar.gz
+file):
+
+ cd elisp-manual-M.N
+ ./configure --prefix=PREFIXDIR
+ make install
+
+Otherwise, you can install it manually. Just copy the files elisp and
+elisp-* from the elisp-manual-M.N directory to your site's info
+directory (see the description of `infodir', below), and make sure
+that file `dir' in this directory contains an entry like this: