-Copyright (C) 2001-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 2001-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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 24.4.91 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
See the "Bugs" section of the Emacs manual for more information on how
to report bugs. (The file `BUGS' in this directory explains how you
can find and read that section using the Info files that come with
-Emacs.) See `etc/MAILINGLISTS' for more information on mailing lists
-relating to GNU packages.
+Emacs.) For a list of mailing lists related to Emacs, see
+<http://savannah.gnu.org/mail/?group=emacs>. For the complete
+list of GNU mailing lists, see <http://lists.gnu.org/>.
The `etc' subdirectory contains several other files, named in capital
letters, which you might consider looking at when installing GNU
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
-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'.
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.