X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/gnu-emacs/blobdiff_plain/400a1ed0cd657f05cf6c49d82a688a9107c2fe49..d6226972f787f4d7be362fc2f0ccbcc9a78e9085:/INSTALL diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 5ae7631d51..2b6f99974c 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -52,14 +52,26 @@ each character set. The intlfonts distribution contains its own installation instructions, in the intlfonts/README file. -* elisp-manual-VERSION.tar.gz +* elisp-manual-M.N.tar.gz -This is the Emacs Lisp Reference for programmers, containing an -in-depth discussion of Emacs Lisp and Emacs internals. The -distribution contains the Texinfo source files for the Reference -Manual. The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual is quite large. It contains -around 900 pages in smallbook format; the info files total almost two -megabytes. The package contains installation instructions of its own. +This distribution contains the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual which +complements the Emacs Lisp 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: + + 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: + + * Elisp: (elisp). The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual. BUILDING AND INSTALLATION: @@ -322,7 +334,11 @@ to enable it to write the lock files. We believe this is safe. 10) You are done! You can remove executables and object files from the build directory by typing `make clean'. To also remove the files that `configure' created (so you can compile Emacs for a different -configuration), type `make distclean'. +configuration), type `make distclean'. If you don't need some, or all +of the input methods from the Leim package, you can remove the +unneeded files in the leim/quail, leim/skk, and leim/skk-dic +subdirectories of your site's lisp directory (usually +/usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/).