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| author | Daniel Colascione | 2012-09-17 04:07:36 -0800 |
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| committer | Daniel Colascione | 2012-09-17 04:07:36 -0800 |
| commit | 2ab329f3b5d52a39f0a45c3d9c129f1c19560142 (patch) | |
| tree | 6dd6784d63e54cb18071df8e28fbdbc27d418728 /README | |
| parent | f701ab72dd55460d23c8b029550aa4d7ecef3cfa (diff) | |
| parent | bb7dce392f6d9d5fc4b9d7de09ff920a52f07669 (diff) | |
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| @@ -41,9 +41,14 @@ The file `configure.ac' is the input used by the autoconf program to | |||
| 41 | construct the `configure' script. Since Emacs has some configuration | 41 | construct the `configure' script. Since Emacs has some configuration |
| 42 | requirements that autoconf can't meet directly, and for historical | 42 | requirements that autoconf can't meet directly, and for historical |
| 43 | reasons, `configure.ac' uses an unholy marriage of custom-baked | 43 | reasons, `configure.ac' uses an unholy marriage of custom-baked |
| 44 | configuration code and autoconf macros. If you want to rebuild | 44 | configuration code and autoconf macros. |
| 45 | `configure' from `configure.ac', you will need to install a recent | 45 | |
| 46 | version of autoconf and GNU m4. | 46 | The shell script `autogen.sh' generates 'configure' and other files by |
| 47 | running the GNU build tools autoconf and automake, which in turn use | ||
| 48 | GNU m4 and Perl. If you want to use it, you will need to install | ||
| 49 | recent versions of these build tools. This should be needed only if | ||
| 50 | you edit files like `configure.ac' that specify Emacs's autobuild | ||
| 51 | procedure. | ||
| 47 | 52 | ||
| 48 | The file `Makefile.in' is a template used by `configure' to create | 53 | The file `Makefile.in' is a template used by `configure' to create |
| 49 | `Makefile'. | 54 | `Makefile'. |