X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/gnu-emacs/blobdiff_plain/c8d3a25c0981020e1b8aa3bf96a4a0059be82431..b33dcadbc2bf13079309b2afbeaad6732796bd0a:/README diff --git a/README b/README index 4e1a4c4556..de4ee24fc5 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -37,12 +37,12 @@ oddities of your processor and operating system. It creates the file 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 +reasons, `configure.ac' 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 +`configure' from `configure.ac', you will need to install a recent version of autoconf and GNU m4. The file `Makefile.in' is a template used by `configure' to create