from the corresponding `Makefile.in' files. This isn't so hard,
just a matter of substitution.
-5) If you're going to use the build-install script to build Emacs,
-copy `./build-ins.in' to `./build-install', and edit the
-definitions found at the top of the script.
-
The `configure' script is built from `configure.in' by the `autoconf'
program. However, since Emacs has configuration requirements that
autoconf can't meet, `configure.in' uses an marriage of custom-baked
BUILDING GNU EMACS BY HAND
-Once Emacs is configured, running `make' or running the shell script
-`build-install' in the top directory performs the following steps.
+Once Emacs is configured, running `make' in the top directory performs
+the following steps.
1) Run `make src/paths.h' in the top directory. This produces
`./src/paths.h' from the template file `./src/paths.h.in', changing
INSTALLATION BY HAND
-The steps below are done by the shell script `build-install' or by
-running `make install' in the main directory of the Emacs
-distribution.
+The steps below are done by running `make install' in the main
+directory of the Emacs distribution.
1) Copy `./lisp' and its subdirectories, `./etc', and the executables
in `./lib-src' to their final destinations, as selected in `./src/paths.h'.