X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/gnu-emacs/blobdiff_plain/e6fd457e010c2ec034a331335530d817852cc11c..153dd4d04f0bb5e315cb1911db1c05c6a3d976df:/README diff --git a/README b/README index 4e1a4c4556..ebd07eaaa3 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ -Copyright (C) 2001-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 2001-2013 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 24.3.50 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 @@ -37,13 +37,18 @@ 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 -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'.