Do not preprocess src/Makefile.in.

* configure.in: Do not preprocess src/Makefile.in.
(cpp_undefs, CPP_NEED_TRADITIONAL): Remove.
(AC_EGREP_CPP): Test no longer needed.
* configure: Regenerate.

* config.bat: Do not preprocess src/Makefile.in.

* make-dist: No more Makefile.c files.

* INSTALL, src/README: Makefiles are not preprocessed.

* src/Makefile.in, src/autodeps.mk, src/deps.mk, src/ns.mk:
Convert comments to Makefile format.

* lib-src/Makefile.in (distclean): No more Makefile.c.
* src/Makefile.in (bootstrap-clean): No more Makefile.c.

* admin/notes/cpp: Remove file.

* admin/quick-install-emacs (AVOID): No more Makefile.c files.

* etc/PROBLEMS, etc/MACHINES: Remove details of cpp problems which can
no longer occur.

19 files changed, 248 insertions, 407 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index f17fd567624..0e82d3a521c 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+2010-05-27  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
+
+	* config.bat: Do not preprocess src/Makefile.in.
+
+	* configure.in: Do not preprocess src/Makefile.in.
+	(cpp_undefs, CPP_NEED_TRADITIONAL): Remove.
+	(AC_EGREP_CPP): Test no longer needed.
+
+	* make-dist: No more Makefile.c files.
+
 2010-05-26  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
 
 	* configure.in (YMF_PASS_LDFLAGS): Remove.
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 040b25f6d6d..35238fc21a4 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 GNU Emacs Installation Guide
 Copyright (C) 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,
-2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+  2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
+  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 See the end of the file for license conditions.
 
 
@@ -686,8 +687,8 @@ when running make in the subdirectories.
 
 CONFIGURATION BY HAND
 
-Instead of running the `configure' program, you have to perform the
-following steps.
+This should not be necessary and is not recommended.  Instead of
+running the `configure' program, you have to perform the following steps.
 
 1) Copy `./src/config.in' to `./src/config.h'.
 
@@ -701,22 +702,15 @@ the appropriate system and architecture description files.
 2) Edit `./src/config.h' to set the right options for your system.  If
 you need to override any of the definitions in the s/*.h and m/*.h
 files for your system and machine, do so by editing config.h, not by
-changing the s/*.h and m/*.h files.  Occasionally you may need to
-redefine parameters used in `./lib-src/movemail.c'.
+changing the s/*.h and m/*.h files.
 
-3) Create src/Makefile and lib-src/Makefile from the corresponding
-`Makefile.in' files.  First copy `Makefile.in' to `Makefile.c',
-then edit in appropriate substitutions for the @...@ constructs,
-and then copy the shell commands near the end of `configure'
-that run cpp to construct `Makefile'.
-
-4) Create `Makefile' files in various other directories
-from the corresponding `Makefile.in' files.  This isn't so hard,
-just a matter of substitution.
+3) Create `Makefile' files in various directories from the
+corresponding `Makefile.in' files.  This isn't so hard, just a matter
+of editing in appropriate substitutions for the @...@ constructs.
 
 The `configure' script is built from `configure.in' by the `autoconf'
-program.  You need version 2.51 or newer of `autoconf' to rebuild
-`configure'.
+program.  You need at least the version of autoconf specified in the
+AC_PREREQ(...) command to rebuild `configure' from `configure.in'.
 
 BUILDING GNU EMACS BY HAND
 
diff --git a/admin/ChangeLog b/admin/ChangeLog
index 54be4a7fec3..2f6efffd157 100644
--- a/admin/ChangeLog
+++ b/admin/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2010-05-27  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
+
+	* quick-install-emacs (AVOID): No more Makefile.c files.
+
+	* notes/cpp: Remove file.
+
 2010-05-15  Ken Raeburn  <raeburn@raeburn.org>
 
 	* admin.el (set-version, set-copyright): Update emacs.c instead of
diff --git a/admin/notes/cpp b/admin/notes/cpp
deleted file mode 100644
index 73b4b3d64ff..00000000000
--- a/admin/notes/cpp
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-ttn 2003-04-09
-
-we use a C preprocesor not only in the normal compilation of .c files
-into object files, but also for creating src/Makefile.
-(delimited by comment "start of cpp stuff").  some cpp implementations
-insert whitespace in between tokens.
-
-during makefile creation, the preprocessor symbol NOT_C_CODE is defined.
-this should not be defined for normal .c file compilation.
-
-there has been discussion on eliminating this use of cpp and relying
-solely on autoconf processing.  rms says to leave it be.
-
-;;; arch-tag: d654291e-9fc8-41b7-ab0c-d3cde842a8e0
diff --git a/admin/quick-install-emacs b/admin/quick-install-emacs
index d603d8fd0d6..39b200b5102 100755
--- a/admin/quick-install-emacs
+++ b/admin/quick-install-emacs
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 ### quick-install-emacs --- do a halfway-decent job of installing emacs quickly
 
-## Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
-##   Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+## Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009,
+##   2010  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 ## Author: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
 
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 PUBLIC_LIBSRC_BINARIES='b2m emacsclient etags ctags ebrowse'
 PUBLIC_LIBSRC_SCRIPTS='grep-changelog rcs-checkin'
 
-AVOID="CVS -DIC README COPYING ChangeLog ~ [.]orig$ [.]rej$ Makefile$ Makefile.in$ Makefile.c$ makefile$ makefile.w32-in$ stamp-subdir [.]cvsignore [.]arch-ids [{]arch[}] [.][cho]$ make-docfile testfile test-distrib"
+AVOID="CVS -DIC README COPYING ChangeLog ~ [.]orig$ [.]rej$ Makefile$ Makefile.in$ makefile$ makefile.w32-in$ stamp-subdir [.]cvsignore [.]arch-ids [{]arch[}] [.][cho]$ make-docfile testfile test-distrib"
 
 # Prune old binaries lying around in the source tree
 PRUNE=no
diff --git a/config.bat b/config.bat
index ba31161962e..a37a7a70085 100644
--- a/config.bat
+++ b/config.bat
@@ -190,11 +190,10 @@ rem   On my system dir.h gets in the way.  It's a VMS file so who cares.
 if exist dir.h ren dir.h vmsdir.h

 

 rem   Create "makefile" from "makefile.in".

-rm -f Makefile junk.c junk2.c

-sed -e "1,/== start of cpp stuff ==/s@^##*[ 	].*$@@" <Makefile.in >junk.c

-copy junk.c + deps.mk junk2.c

-gcc -E -traditional junk2.c | sed -f ../msdos/sed1v2.inp >Makefile

-rm -f junk.c junk2.c

+rm -f Makefile makefile.tmp

+copy Makefile.in + deps.mk makefile.tmp

+sed -f ../msdos/sed1v2.inp <makefile.tmp >Makefile

+rm -f makefile.tmp

 

 if "%X11%" == "" goto src5

 mv Makefile makefile.tmp

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 7895df600a2..3f8ebffc6ee 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -26694,15 +26694,15 @@ fi
 
 
 test "x$LINKER" = "x" && LINKER=ld
-## FIXME? What setting of YMF_PASS_LDFLAGS should this have?
+## FIXME? What setting of EDIT_LDFLAGS should this have?
 test "$NS_IMPL_GNUSTEP" = "yes" && LINKER="\$(CC) -rdynamic"
 
 
 
 
-## FIXME? The logic here is not precisely the same as that above
-## setting YMF_PASS_LDFLAGS.  There is no check here for a pre-defined
-## LINKER.  Should we only be setting LIB_GCC if LD ~ -nostdlib?
+## FIXME? The logic here is not precisely the same as that above.
+## There is no check here for a pre-defined LINKER.
+## Should we only be setting LIB_GCC if LD ~ -nostdlib?
 LIB_GCC=
 if test "x$GCC" = "xyes" && test "x$ORDINARY_LINK" != "xyes"; then
 
@@ -26848,42 +26848,7 @@ test "${prefix}" != NONE &&
 test "${exec_prefix}" != NONE &&
   exec_prefix=`echo "${exec_prefix}" | sed 's,\([^/]\)/*$,\1,'`
 
-# Now get this: Some word that is part of the ${srcdir} directory name
-# or the ${configuration} value might, just might, happen to be an
-# identifier like `sun4' or `i386' or something, and be predefined by
-# the C preprocessor to some helpful value like 1, or maybe the empty
-# string.  Needless to say consequent macro substitutions are less
-# than conducive to the makefile finding the correct directory.
-# src/Makefile.in used to treat X11 as equivalent to HAVE_X11.
-# But nothing in Emacs defines X11, and everywhere else uses HAVE_X11,
-# so that cannot have been doing anything.
-cpp_undefs="`echo $srcdir $configuration $canonical unix mktime register X11 |
-  sed -e 's/[^a-zA-Z0-9_]/ /g' -e 's/^/ /' -e 's/  *$//' \
-  -e 's/  */ -U/g' -e 's/-U[0-9][^ ]*//g'`"
-
-## Check if the C preprocessor will convert `..' to `. .'.  If so, set
-## CPP_NEED_TRADITIONAL to `yes' so that the code to generate Makefile
-## from Makefile.c can correctly provide the arg `-traditional' to the
-## C preprocessor.
-
-cat >conftest.$ac_ext <<_ACEOF
-/* confdefs.h.  */
-_ACEOF
-cat confdefs.h >>conftest.$ac_ext
-cat >>conftest.$ac_ext <<_ACEOF
-/* end confdefs.h.  */
-yes..yes
-_ACEOF
-if (eval "$ac_cpp conftest.$ac_ext") 2>&5 |
-  $EGREP "yes..yes" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
-  CPP_NEED_TRADITIONAL=no
-else
-  CPP_NEED_TRADITIONAL=yes
-fi
-rm -f conftest*
-
-
-ac_config_files="$ac_config_files Makefile lib-src/Makefile oldXMenu/Makefile doc/emacs/Makefile doc/misc/Makefile doc/lispintro/Makefile doc/lispref/Makefile src/Makefile.c:src/Makefile.in lwlib/Makefile lisp/Makefile leim/Makefile"
+ac_config_files="$ac_config_files Makefile lib-src/Makefile oldXMenu/Makefile doc/emacs/Makefile doc/misc/Makefile doc/lispintro/Makefile doc/lispref/Makefile src/Makefile lwlib/Makefile lisp/Makefile leim/Makefile"
 
 ac_config_commands="$ac_config_commands default"
 
@@ -27470,7 +27435,7 @@ cat >>$CONFIG_STATUS <<_ACEOF || ac_write_fail=1
 #
 # INIT-COMMANDS
 #
-GCC="$GCC" NON_GNU_CPP="$NON_GNU_CPP" CPP="$CPP" CPP_NEED_TRADITIONAL="$CPP_NEED_TRADITIONAL" CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS" cpp_undefs="$cpp_undefs"
+GCC="$GCC" NON_GNU_CPP="$NON_GNU_CPP" CPP="$CPP" CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS"
 
 _ACEOF
 
@@ -27488,7 +27453,7 @@ do
     "doc/misc/Makefile") CONFIG_FILES="$CONFIG_FILES doc/misc/Makefile" ;;
     "doc/lispintro/Makefile") CONFIG_FILES="$CONFIG_FILES doc/lispintro/Makefile" ;;
     "doc/lispref/Makefile") CONFIG_FILES="$CONFIG_FILES doc/lispref/Makefile" ;;
-    "src/Makefile.c") CONFIG_FILES="$CONFIG_FILES src/Makefile.c:src/Makefile.in" ;;
+    "src/Makefile") CONFIG_FILES="$CONFIG_FILES src/Makefile" ;;
     "lwlib/Makefile") CONFIG_FILES="$CONFIG_FILES lwlib/Makefile" ;;
     "lisp/Makefile") CONFIG_FILES="$CONFIG_FILES lisp/Makefile" ;;
     "leim/Makefile") CONFIG_FILES="$CONFIG_FILES leim/Makefile" ;;
@@ -28154,35 +28119,9 @@ for dir in etc lisp ; do
   test -d ${dir} || mkdir ${dir}
 done
 
-# Build src/Makefile from ${srcdir}/src/Makefile.c
-# This must be done after src/config.h is built, since we rely on that file.
-
 echo creating src/epaths.h
 ${MAKE-make} epaths-force
 
-# As of 2000-11-19, newest development versions of GNU cpp preprocess
-# `..' to `. .'  unless invoked with -traditional
-
-if test "x$GCC" = xyes && test "x$CPP_NEED_TRADITIONAL" = xyes; then
-  CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -traditional"
-fi
-
-echo creating src/Makefile
-( cd src
-  rm -f junk.c junk1.c junk2.c
-  sed -e '/start of cpp stuff/q' \
-      < Makefile.c > junk1.c
-  sed -e '1,/start of cpp stuff/d'\
-      -e 's,/\*\*/#\(.*\)$,/* \1 */,' \
-      < Makefile.c > junk.c
-  $CPP -P $cpp_undefs -I. -I$srcdir/src $CPPFLAGS junk.c | \
-      sed -e 's/^ /	/' -e '/^#/d' -e '/^[ 	]*$/d' > junk2.c
-  cat junk1.c junk2.c > Makefile.new
-  rm -f junk.c junk1.c junk2.c
-  chmod 444 Makefile.new
-  mv -f Makefile.new Makefile
-)
-
 if test ! -f src/.gdbinit && test -f $srcdir/src/.gdbinit; then
   echo creating src/.gdbinit
   echo source $srcdir/src/.gdbinit > src/.gdbinit
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 9fb73280d78..9d301367b09 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -3755,32 +3755,9 @@ fi
 test "${exec_prefix}" != NONE &&
   exec_prefix=`echo "${exec_prefix}" | sed 's,\([^/]\)/*$,\1,'`]
 
-# Now get this: Some word that is part of the ${srcdir} directory name
-# or the ${configuration} value might, just might, happen to be an
-# identifier like `sun4' or `i386' or something, and be predefined by
-# the C preprocessor to some helpful value like 1, or maybe the empty
-# string.  Needless to say consequent macro substitutions are less
-# than conducive to the makefile finding the correct directory.
-# src/Makefile.in used to treat X11 as equivalent to HAVE_X11.
-# But nothing in Emacs defines X11, and everywhere else uses HAVE_X11,
-# so that cannot have been doing anything.
-[cpp_undefs="`echo $srcdir $configuration $canonical unix mktime register X11 |
-  sed -e 's/[^a-zA-Z0-9_]/ /g' -e 's/^/ /' -e 's/  *$//' \
-  -e 's/  */ -U/g' -e 's/-U[0-9][^ ]*//g'`"]
-
-## Check if the C preprocessor will convert `..' to `. .'.  If so, set
-## CPP_NEED_TRADITIONAL to `yes' so that the code to generate Makefile
-## from Makefile.c can correctly provide the arg `-traditional' to the
-## C preprocessor.
-
-AC_EGREP_CPP(yes..yes,
-	[yes..yes],
-	CPP_NEED_TRADITIONAL=no,
-	CPP_NEED_TRADITIONAL=yes)
-
 AC_OUTPUT(Makefile lib-src/Makefile oldXMenu/Makefile \
 	doc/emacs/Makefile doc/misc/Makefile doc/lispintro/Makefile \
-	doc/lispref/Makefile src/Makefile.c:src/Makefile.in \
+	doc/lispref/Makefile src/Makefile \
 	lwlib/Makefile lisp/Makefile leim/Makefile, [
 
 ### Make the necessary directories, if they don't exist.
@@ -3788,41 +3765,15 @@ for dir in etc lisp ; do
   test -d ${dir} || mkdir ${dir}
 done
 
-# Build src/Makefile from ${srcdir}/src/Makefile.c
-# This must be done after src/config.h is built, since we rely on that file.
-
 echo creating src/epaths.h
 ${MAKE-make} epaths-force
 
-# As of 2000-11-19, newest development versions of GNU cpp preprocess
-# `..' to `. .'  unless invoked with -traditional
-
-if test "x$GCC" = xyes && test "x$CPP_NEED_TRADITIONAL" = xyes; then
-  CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -traditional"
-fi
-
-echo creating src/Makefile
-( cd src
-  rm -f junk.c junk1.c junk2.c
-  sed -e '/start of cpp stuff/q' \
-      < Makefile.c > junk1.c
-  sed -e '1,/start of cpp stuff/d'\
-      -e 's,/\*\*/#\(.*\)$,/* \1 */,' \
-      < Makefile.c > junk.c
-  $CPP -P $cpp_undefs -I. -I$srcdir/src $CPPFLAGS junk.c | \
-      sed -e 's/^ /	/' -e '/^#/d' -e '/^[ 	]*$/d' > junk2.c
-  cat junk1.c junk2.c > Makefile.new
-  rm -f junk.c junk1.c junk2.c
-  chmod 444 Makefile.new
-  mv -f Makefile.new Makefile
-)
-
 if test ! -f src/.gdbinit && test -f $srcdir/src/.gdbinit; then
   echo creating src/.gdbinit
   echo source $srcdir/src/.gdbinit > src/.gdbinit
 fi
 
-], [GCC="$GCC" NON_GNU_CPP="$NON_GNU_CPP" CPP="$CPP" CPP_NEED_TRADITIONAL="$CPP_NEED_TRADITIONAL" CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS" cpp_undefs="$cpp_undefs"])
+], [GCC="$GCC" NON_GNU_CPP="$NON_GNU_CPP" CPP="$CPP" CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS"])
 
 m4_if(dnl	Do not change this comment
    arch-tag: 156a4dd5-bddc-4d18-96ac-f37742cf6a5e
diff --git a/etc/MACHINES b/etc/MACHINES
index 8fc79ab0d1d..aa5d766e8dd 100644
--- a/etc/MACHINES
+++ b/etc/MACHINES
@@ -198,8 +198,7 @@ IBM RS/6000 (rs6000-ibm-aix*)
 
 IBM System/390 running GNU/Linux (s390-*-linux-gnu)
 
-  As of Emacs 21.2, a 31-bit only version is supported on this
-  system.
+  As of Emacs 21.2, a 31-bit only version is supported on this system.
 
 Intel 386 (i386-*-freebsd,      i386-*-linux-gnu,
 	   i386-*-sol2.4,	i386-intsys-sysv,
@@ -247,11 +246,6 @@ Intel 386 (i386-*-freebsd,      i386-*-linux-gnu,
   do `gmake install MAKE=gmake'.  However, more recently it is
   reported that using the system Make on NetBSD 1.3.1 works ok.
 
-  If you are using System V release 4.2, you may find that `cc -E'
-  puts spurious spaces in `src/xmakefile'.  If that happens,
-  specify CPP=/lib/cpp as an option when you run make.
-  There is no problem if you compile with GCC.
-
   Note that use of Linux with GCC 2.4 and the DLL 4.4 libraries
   requires the experimental "net 2" network patches (no relation to
   Berkeley Net 2).  There is a report that (some version of) Linux
@@ -491,10 +485,6 @@ System V rel 4.0.3 and 4.0.4 (usg5.4)
   If you get compilation errors about wrong number of
   arguments to getpgrp, define GETPGRP_NO_ARG.
 
-  The standard C preprocessor may generate xmakefile incorrectly.  However,
-  /lib/cpp will work, so use `make CPP=/lib/cpp'.  Standard cpp
-  seems to work OK under Dell 2.2.
-
   Some versions 3 and earlier of V.4, on the Intel 386 and 860, had
   problems in the X11 libraries.  These prevent Emacs from working
   with X.  You can use Emacs with X provided your copy of X is based
diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS
index b3cda374c51..65e3920eee3 100644
--- a/etc/PROBLEMS
+++ b/etc/PROBLEMS
@@ -2373,18 +2373,6 @@ The solution is to tell configure to use the correct C preprocessor
 for your C compiler (CPP="/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc -E" in the above
 example).
 
-*** `configure' fails with ``"junk.c", line 660: invalid input token: 8.elc''
-
-The final stage of the Emacs configure process uses the C preprocessor
-to generate the Makefiles.  Errors of this form can occur if the C
-preprocessor inserts extra whitespace into its output.  The solution
-is to find the switches that stop your preprocessor from inserting extra
-whitespace, add them to CPPFLAGS, and re-run configure.  For example,
-this error can occur on Solaris 10 when using the Sun Studio compiler
-``Sun C 5.8'' with its preprocessor CPP="/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc -E".
-The relevant switch in this case is "-Xs" (``compile assuming
-(pre-ANSI) K & R C style code'').
-
 ** Compilation
 
 *** Building Emacs over NFS fails with ``Text file busy''.
@@ -2427,32 +2415,6 @@ you are working on the host called `marvin'.  Then an entry in the
 
 The solution is to remove this line from `etc/fstab'.
 
-*** Building Emacs with GCC 2.9x fails in the `src' directory.
-
-This may happen if you use a development version of GNU `cpp' from one
-of the GCC snapshots between Oct 2000 and Feb 2001, or from a released
-version of GCC newer than 2.95.2 which was prepared around those
-dates; similar problems were reported with some snapshots of GCC 3.1
-around Sep 30 2001.  The preprocessor in those versions is
-incompatible with a traditional Unix cpp (e.g., it expands ".." into
-". .", which breaks relative file names that reference the parent
-directory; or inserts TAB characters before lines that set Make
-variables).
-
-The solution is to make sure the preprocessor is run with the
-`-traditional' option.  The `configure' script does that automatically
-when it detects the known problems in your cpp, but you might hit some
-unknown ones.  To force the `configure' script to use `-traditional',
-run the script like this:
-
-  CPP='gcc -E -traditional' ./configure ...
-
-(replace the ellipsis "..." with any additional arguments you pass to
-the script).
-
-Note that this problem does not pertain to the MS-Windows port of
-Emacs, since it doesn't use the preprocessor to generate Makefiles.
-
 *** src/Makefile and lib-src/Makefile are truncated--most of the file missing.
 *** Compiling wakeup, in lib-src, says it can't make wakeup.c.
 
diff --git a/lib-src/ChangeLog b/lib-src/ChangeLog
index d2c7301fb6f..ac1641a552e 100644
--- a/lib-src/ChangeLog
+++ b/lib-src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2010-05-27  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
+
+	* Makefile.in (distclean): No more Makefile.c.
+
 2010-05-22  Jan Djärv  <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
 
 	* Makefile.in (STAMP_INST_SCRIPTS, STAMP_SCRIPS): New (Bug #6246).
diff --git a/lib-src/Makefile.in b/lib-src/Makefile.in
index 1c19dec276b..264f14b1d49 100644
--- a/lib-src/Makefile.in
+++ b/lib-src/Makefile.in
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ clean: mostlyclean
 
 distclean: clean
 	-rm -f TAGS
-	-rm -f Makefile Makefile.c blessmail
+	-rm -f Makefile blessmail
 
 maintainer-clean: distclean
 	true
diff --git a/make-dist b/make-dist
index 11969042db1..d853a078ce3 100755
--- a/make-dist
+++ b/make-dist
@@ -461,7 +461,7 @@ echo "Making links to \`src'"
  ln makefile.w32-in ../${tempdir}/src
  ln .gdbinit .dbxinit ../${tempdir}/src
  cd ../${tempdir}/src
- rm -f config.h epaths.h Makefile Makefile.c
+ rm -f config.h epaths.h Makefile
  rm -f =* TAGS)
 
 echo "Making links to \`src/bitmaps'"
@@ -499,7 +499,6 @@ echo "Making links to \`lib-src'"
    fi
  done
  cd ../${tempdir}/lib-src
- rm -f Makefile.c
  rm -f getopt.h
  rm -f =* TAGS)
 
diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index 83d2e956af6..d7128960af7 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2010-05-27  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
+
+	* Makefile.in, autodeps.mk, deps.mk, ns.mk:
+	Convert comments to Makefile format.
+
+	* Makefile.in (bootstrap-clean): No more Makefile.c.
+
 2010-05-26  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
 
 	* Makefile.in (YMF_PASS_LDFLAGS): Remove.
diff --git a/src/Makefile.in b/src/Makefile.in
index ea84fa08429..0b23606a921 100644
--- a/src/Makefile.in
+++ b/src/Makefile.in
@@ -23,13 +23,6 @@
 # script may need modifying in sync with changes made here.  Try to
 # avoid shell-ism because the DOS build has to use the DOS shell.
 
-# Don't try to replace the cpp processing using autoconf facilities,
-# says rms.
-# Replacing a particular part of the conditionals to work via autoconf
-# is OK.
-# Some of the conditionals might be dead now.  Finding them and
-# deleting them would be fine.
-
 SHELL = /bin/sh
 
 # Here are the things that we expect ../configure to edit.
@@ -47,7 +40,7 @@ version = @version@
 # BSD doesn't have it as a default.
 @SET_MAKE@
 # Don't use LIBS.  configure puts stuff in it that either shouldn't be
-# linked with Emacs or is duplicated by the cpp stuff below.
+# linked with Emacs or is duplicated by the other stuff below.
 # LIBS = @LIBS@
 LIBOBJS = @LIBOBJS@
 
@@ -298,24 +291,26 @@ DEPFLAGS=@DEPFLAGS@
 ## test -d ${DEPDIR} || mkdir ${DEPDIR} (if AUTO_DEPEND); else ':'.
 MKDEPDIR=@MKDEPDIR@
 
-# ========================== start of cpp stuff =======================
-/* From here on, comments must be done in C syntax.  */
-
-/* DO NOT use -R.  There is a special hack described in lastfile.c
-   which is used instead.  Some initialized data areas are modified
-   at initial startup, then labeled as part of the text area when
-   Emacs is dumped for the first time, and never changed again.  */
-
-/* -Demacs is needed to make some files produce the correct version
-   for use in Emacs.
-
-   -DHAVE_CONFIG_H is needed for some other files to take advantage of
-   the information in ``config.h''.  */
-
-/* C_SWITCH_X_SITE must come before C_SWITCH_X_SYSTEM
-   since it may have -I options that should override those.  */
-/* MYCPPFLAGS only referenced in etc/DEBUG.  */
-ALL_CFLAGS=-Demacs -DHAVE_CONFIG_H $(MYCPPFLAGS) -I. -I${srcdir} ${C_SWITCH_MACHINE} ${C_SWITCH_SYSTEM} ${C_SWITCH_X_SITE} ${C_SWITCH_X_SYSTEM} ${CFLAGS_SOUND} ${RSVG_CFLAGS} ${DBUS_CFLAGS} ${GCONF_CFLAGS} ${CFLAGS} ${FREETYPE_CFLAGS} ${FONTCONFIG_CFLAGS} ${LIBOTF_CFLAGS} ${M17N_FLT_CFLAGS} ${DEPFLAGS}
+## DO NOT use -R.  There is a special hack described in lastfile.c
+## which is used instead.  Some initialized data areas are modified
+## at initial startup, then labeled as part of the text area when
+## Emacs is dumped for the first time, and never changed again.
+##
+## -Demacs is needed to make some files produce the correct version
+## for use in Emacs.
+##
+## -DHAVE_CONFIG_H is needed for some other files to take advantage of
+## the information in `config.h'.
+##
+## C_SWITCH_X_SITE must come before C_SWITCH_X_SYSTEM
+## since it may have -I options that should override those.
+##
+## FIXME? MYCPPFLAGS only referenced in etc/DEBUG.
+ALL_CFLAGS=-Demacs -DHAVE_CONFIG_H $(MYCPPFLAGS) -I. -I${srcdir} \
+  ${C_SWITCH_MACHINE} ${C_SWITCH_SYSTEM} ${C_SWITCH_X_SITE} \
+  ${C_SWITCH_X_SYSTEM} ${CFLAGS_SOUND} ${RSVG_CFLAGS} ${DBUS_CFLAGS} \
+  ${GCONF_CFLAGS} ${CFLAGS} ${FREETYPE_CFLAGS} ${FONTCONFIG_CFLAGS} \
+  ${LIBOTF_CFLAGS} ${M17N_FLT_CFLAGS} ${DEPFLAGS}
 ALL_OBJC_CFLAGS=$(ALL_CFLAGS) $(GNU_OBJC_CFLAGS)
 
 .SUFFIXES: .m
@@ -327,8 +322,8 @@ ALL_OBJC_CFLAGS=$(ALL_CFLAGS) $(GNU_OBJC_CFLAGS)
 	$(CC) -c $(CPPFLAGS) $(ALL_OBJC_CFLAGS) $<
 
 
-/* lastfile must follow all files whose initialized data areas should
-   be dumped as pure by dump-emacs.  */
+## lastfile must follow all files whose initialized data areas should
+## be dumped as pure by dump-emacs.
 obj=    dispnew.o frame.o scroll.o xdisp.o menu.o $(XMENU_OBJ) window.o \
 	charset.o coding.o category.o ccl.o character.o chartab.o bidi.o \
 	cm.o term.o terminal.o xfaces.o $(XOBJ) $(GTK_OBJ) $(DBUS_OBJ) \
@@ -344,8 +339,8 @@ obj=    dispnew.o frame.o scroll.o xdisp.o menu.o $(XMENU_OBJ) window.o \
 	doprnt.o strftime.o intervals.o textprop.o composite.o md5.o \
 	$(MSDOS_OBJ) $(MSDOS_X_OBJ) $(NS_OBJ) $(CYGWIN_OBJ) $(FONT_OBJ)
 
-/* Object files used on some machine or other.
-   These go in the DOC file on all machines in case they are needed.  */
+## Object files used on some machine or other.
+## These go in the DOC file on all machines in case they are needed.
 SOME_MACHINE_OBJECTS = dosfns.o msdos.o \
   xterm.o xfns.o xmenu.o xselect.o xrdb.o xsmfns.o fringe.o image.o \
   fontset.o dbusbind.o \
@@ -353,39 +348,38 @@ SOME_MACHINE_OBJECTS = dosfns.o msdos.o \
   w32.o w32console.o w32fns.o w32heap.o w32inevt.o \
   w32menu.o w32proc.o w32reg.o w32select.o w32term.o w32xfns.o $(FONT_OBJ)
 
-/* gmalloc.o if !SYSTEM_MALLOC && !DOUG_LEA_MALLOC, else empty.  */
+## gmalloc.o if !SYSTEM_MALLOC && !DOUG_LEA_MALLOC, else empty.
 GMALLOC_OBJ=@GMALLOC_OBJ@
 
-/* vm-limit.o if !SYSTEM_MALLOC, else empty.  */
+## vm-limit.o if !SYSTEM_MALLOC, else empty.
 VMLIMIT_OBJ=@VMLIMIT_OBJ@
 
-/* ralloc.o if !SYSTEM_MALLOC && REL_ALLOC, else empty.  */
+## ralloc.o if !SYSTEM_MALLOC && REL_ALLOC, else empty.
 RALLOC_OBJ=@RALLOC_OBJ@
 
-/* Empty on Cygwin, lastfile.o elsewhere.  */
+## Empty on Cygwin, lastfile.o elsewhere.
 PRE_ALLOC_OBJ=@PRE_ALLOC_OBJ@
-/* lastfile.o on Cygwin, empty elsewhere.  */
+## lastfile.o on Cygwin, empty elsewhere.
 POST_ALLOC_OBJ=@POST_ALLOC_OBJ@
 
-/* List of object files that make-docfile should not be told about.  */
+## List of object files that make-docfile should not be told about.
 otherobj= $(TERMCAP_OBJ) $(PRE_ALLOC_OBJ) $(GMALLOC_OBJ) $(RALLOC_OBJ) \
   $(POST_ALLOC_OBJ) $(VMLIMIT_OBJ) $(WIDGET_OBJ) $(LIBOBJS)
 
-/* This is the platform-specific list of Lisp files loaded into the
-   dumped Emacs.  It is arranged like this because it is easier to generate
-   it semi-mechanically from loadup.el this way.
-
-   Note that this list should not include lisp files which might not
-   be present, like site-load.el and site-init.el; this makefile
-   expects them all to be either present or buildable.
-
-   Files which are loaded unconditionally (i.e., on all platforms) should
-   also be in shortlisp.  Files which are loaded conditionally (i.e., only
-   on some platforms) should instead be in SOME_MACHINE_LISP.  */
-
-/* Place loaddefs.el first, so it gets generated first, since it is on
-   the critical path (relevant in parallel compilations).  */
-
+## This is the platform-specific list of Lisp files loaded into the
+## dumped Emacs.  It is arranged like this because it is easier to generate
+## it semi-mechanically from loadup.el this way.
+##
+## Note that this list should not include lisp files which might not
+## be present, like site-load.el and site-init.el; this makefile
+## expects them all to be either present or buildable.
+##
+## Files which are loaded unconditionally (i.e., on all platforms) should
+## also be in shortlisp.  Files which are loaded conditionally (i.e., only
+## on some platforms) should instead be in SOME_MACHINE_LISP.
+##
+## Place loaddefs.el first, so it gets generated first, since it is on
+## the critical path (relevant in parallel compilations).
 lisp= \
 	${lispsource}loaddefs.el \
 	${lispsource}abbrev.elc \
@@ -475,11 +469,11 @@ lisp= \
 	${lispsource}window.elc \
 	${lispsource}version.el
 
-/* List of relative names for those files from $lisp that are loaded
-   unconditionally (i.e. on all platforms).  Files from $lisp that
-   are only loaded on some platforms should instead be placed in
-   SOME_MACHINE_LISP.  The only reason this variable exists is to prevent
-   the make-docfile command-line getting too long for some systems.  */
+## List of relative names for those files from $lisp that are loaded
+## unconditionally (i.e. on all platforms).  Files from $lisp that
+## are only loaded on some platforms should instead be placed in
+## SOME_MACHINE_LISP.  The only reason this variable exists is to prevent
+## the make-docfile command-line getting too long for some systems.
 shortlisp= \
 	../lisp/loaddefs.el \
 	../lisp/abbrev.elc \
@@ -563,8 +557,8 @@ shortlisp= \
 	../lisp/window.elc \
 	../lisp/version.el
 
-/* Like $shortlisp, but includes only those files from $lisp that are loaded
-   conditionally (i.e., only on some platforms).  */
+## Like $shortlisp, but includes only those files from $lisp that are loaded
+## conditionally (i.e., only on some platforms).
 SOME_MACHINE_LISP = ../lisp/mouse.elc \
   ../lisp/select.elc ../lisp/scroll-bar.elc \
   ../lisp/ls-lisp.elc ../lisp/dos-fns.elc \
@@ -583,11 +577,10 @@ SOME_MACHINE_LISP = ../lisp/mouse.elc \
   ../lisp/term/ns-win.elc ../lisp/term/w32-win.elc \
   ../lisp/emacs-lisp/easymenu.elc
 
-/* Construct full set of libraries to be linked.
-   Note that SunOS needs -lm to come before -lc; otherwise, you get
-   duplicated symbols.  If the standard libraries were compiled
-   with GCC, we might need LIB_GCC again after them.  */
-
+## Construct full set of libraries to be linked.
+## Note that SunOS needs -lm to come before -lc; otherwise, you get
+## duplicated symbols.  If the standard libraries were compiled
+## with GCC, we might need LIB_GCC again after them.
 LIBES = $(LOADLIBES) $(LIBS) $(LIBX_BASE) $(LIBX_OTHER) $(LIBSOUND) \
    $(RSVG_LIBS) $(DBUS_LIBS) $(LIBGPM) $(LIBRESOLV) $(LIBS_SYSTEM) \
    $(LIBS_TERMCAP) $(GETLOADAVG_LIBS) ${GCONF_LIBS} ${LIBSELINUX_LIBS} \
@@ -596,9 +589,9 @@ LIBES = $(LOADLIBES) $(LIBS) $(LIBX_BASE) $(LIBX_OTHER) $(LIBSOUND) \
 
 all: emacs${EXEEXT} $(OTHER_FILES)
 
-/* Does anyone ever pay attention to the load-path-shadows output here?  */
-/* The dumped Emacs is as functional and more efficient than
-   bootstrap-emacs, so we replace the latter with the former.  */
+## Does anyone ever pay attention to the load-path-shadows output here?
+## The dumped Emacs is as functional and more efficient than
+## bootstrap-emacs, so we replace the latter with the former.
 emacs${EXEEXT}: temacs${EXEEXT} ${etc}DOC ${lisp}
 	if test "${CANNOT_DUMP}" = "yes"; then \
 	  ln -f temacs${EXEEXT} emacs${EXEEXT}; \
@@ -610,19 +603,19 @@ emacs${EXEEXT}: temacs${EXEEXT} ${etc}DOC ${lisp}
 	  ./emacs -q -batch -f list-load-path-shadows || true; \
 	fi
 
-/* We run make-docfile twice because the command line may get too long
-   on some systems.  */
-/* ${SOME_MACHINE_OBJECTS} comes before ${obj} because some files may
-   or may not be included in ${obj}, but they are always included in
-   ${SOME_MACHINE_OBJECTS}.  Since a file is processed when it is mentioned
-   for the first time, this prevents any variation between configurations
-   in the contents of the DOC file.
-   Likewise for ${SOME_MACHINE_LISP}.  */
-/* Most of this Makefile refers to Lisp files via ${lispsource}, so
-   we also use ${lisp} rather than ${shortlisp} for the dependency since
-   the Makefile uses string equality to decide when we talk about identical
-   files.  Apparently we pass ${shortlisp} rather than ${lisp} to make-docfile
-   only in order to reduce the command line length.  --Stef  */
+## We run make-docfile twice because the command line may get too long
+## on some systems.
+## ${SOME_MACHINE_OBJECTS} comes before ${obj} because some files may
+## or may not be included in ${obj}, but they are always included in
+## ${SOME_MACHINE_OBJECTS}.  Since a file is processed when it is mentioned
+## for the first time, this prevents any variation between configurations
+## in the contents of the DOC file.
+## Likewise for ${SOME_MACHINE_LISP}.
+## Most of this Makefile refers to Lisp files via ${lispsource}, so
+## we also use ${lisp} rather than ${shortlisp} for the dependency since
+## the Makefile uses string equality to decide when we talk about identical
+## files.  Apparently we pass ${shortlisp} rather than ${lisp} to make-docfile
+## only in order to reduce the command line length.  --Stef
 ${etc}DOC: ${libsrc}make-docfile${EXEEXT} ${obj} ${lisp} ${SOME_MACHINE_LISP}
 	-rm -f ${etc}DOC
 	${libsrc}make-docfile -d ${srcdir} ${SOME_MACHINE_OBJECTS} ${obj} > ${etc}DOC
@@ -635,11 +628,11 @@ buildobj.h: Makefile
 	echo "#define BUILDOBJ \"${obj} ${otherobj} " "\"" > buildobj.h
 
 
-/* We cannot define variables for PRE_EDIT and POST_EDIT.
-   If !ORDINARY_LINK && !LINKER && GCC, they add a
-   \`./prefix-args -Xlinker ... \` wrapper, otherwise they are empty.
-   One alternative to this approach would be to always call prefix-args, 
-   and have it DTRT in all cases, by testing the above defines.  */
+## We cannot define variables for PRE_EDIT and POST_EDIT.
+## If !ORDINARY_LINK && !LINKER && GCC, they add a
+## `./prefix-args -Xlinker ... ` wrapper, otherwise they are empty.
+## One alternative to this approach would be to always call prefix-args, 
+## and have it DTRT in all cases, by testing the above defines.
 temacs${EXEEXT}: $(START_FILES) stamp-oldxmenu ${obj} ${otherobj} prefix-args${EXEEXT}
 	$(LD) @PRE_EDIT_LDFLAGS@ ${TEMACS_LDFLAGS} @POST_EDIT_LDFLAGS@ \
 	  ${TEMACS_LDFLAGS2} \
@@ -649,27 +642,27 @@ prefix-args${EXEEXT}: prefix-args.o $(config_h)
 	$(CC) $(LDFLAGS) prefix-args.o -o prefix-args
 
 
-/* The following oldxmenu-related rules are only (possibly) used if
-   HAVE_X11 && !USE_GTK, but there is no harm in always defining them
-   (provided we take a little care that OLDXMENU is never empty).  */
+## The following oldxmenu-related rules are only (possibly) used if
+## HAVE_X11 && !USE_GTK, but there is no harm in always defining them
+## (provided we take a little care that OLDXMENU is never empty).
 really-lwlib:
 	cd ${lwlibdir}; ${MAKE} ${MFLAGS} \
     CC='${CC}' CFLAGS='${CFLAGS}' MAKE='${MAKE}'
-	@true  /* make -t should not create really-lwlib.  */
+	@true  # make -t should not create really-lwlib.
 .PHONY: really-lwlib
 
 really-oldXMenu:
 	cd ${oldXMenudir}; ${MAKE} ${MFLAGS} \
     CC='${CC}' CFLAGS='${CFLAGS}' MAKE='${MAKE}'
-	@true  /* make -t should not create really-oldXMenu.  */
+	@true  # make -t should not create really-oldXMenu.
 .PHONY: really-oldXMenu
 
-/* We don''t really need this when OLDXMENU_DEPS is empty, but as
-   things stand we need something to satisfy the temacs dependency.  */
+## We do not really need this when OLDXMENU_DEPS is empty, but as
+## things stand we need something to satisfy the temacs dependency.
 stamp-oldxmenu: ${OLDXMENU_DEPS}
 	touch stamp-oldxmenu
 
-/* Supply an ordering for parallel make.  */
+## Supply an ordering for parallel make.
 ../src/$(OLDXMENU): ${OLDXMENU}
 
 $(OLDXMENU): $(OLDXMENU_TARGET)
@@ -690,7 +683,7 @@ ecrt0.o: ecrt0.c $(config_h)
 doc.o: buildobj.h
 
 
-/* If HAVE_NS, some ns-specific rules (for OTHER_FILES) are inserted here.  */
+## If HAVE_NS, some ns-specific rules (for OTHER_FILES) are inserted here.
 @ns_frag@
 
 
@@ -704,18 +697,18 @@ clean: mostlyclean
 	-rm -rf ${DEPDIR}
 	test "X${ns_appdir}" = "X" || rm -rf ${ns_appdir}
 
-/* bootstrap-clean is used to clean up just before a bootstrap.
-   It should remove all files generated during a compilation/bootstrap,
-   but not things like config.status or TAGS.  */
+## bootstrap-clean is used to clean up just before a bootstrap.
+## It should remove all files generated during a compilation/bootstrap,
+## but not things like config.status or TAGS.
 bootstrap-clean: clean
-	rm -f epaths.h config.h Makefile.c config.stamp stamp-oldxmenu ../etc/DOC-*
+	rm -f epaths.h config.h config.stamp stamp-oldxmenu ../etc/DOC-*
 	if test -f ./.gdbinit; then \
 	  mv ./.gdbinit ./.gdbinit.save; \
 	  if test -f "${srcdir}/.gdbinit"; then rm -f ./.gdbinit.save; \
 	  else mv ./.gdbinit.save ./.gdbinit; fi; \
 	fi
-/**/# This is used in making a distribution.
-/**/# Do not use it on development directories!
+## This is used in making a distribution.
+## Do not use it on development directories!
 distclean: bootstrap-clean
 	rm -f Makefile
 maintainer-clean: distclean
@@ -727,8 +720,8 @@ versionclean:
 extraclean: distclean
 	-rm -f *~ \#* m/?*~ s/?*~
 
-/* Arrange to make a tags table TAGS-LISP for ../lisp,
-   plus TAGS for the C files, which includes ../lisp/TAGS by reference.  */
+## Arrange to make a tags table TAGS-LISP for ../lisp,
+## plus TAGS for the C files, which includes ../lisp/TAGS by reference.
 
 ctagsfiles1 = [xyzXYZ]*.[hcm]
 ctagsfiles2 = [a-wA-W]*.[hcm]
@@ -748,49 +741,49 @@ tags: TAGS TAGS-LISP $(lwlibdir)TAGS
 .PHONY: tags
 
 
-/* Bootstrapping.  */
-/* Bootstrapping right is difficult because of the circular dependencies.
-   Furthermore, we have to deal with the fact that many compilation targets
-   such as loaddefs.el or *.elc can typically be produced by any old
-   Emacs executable, so we would like to avoid rebuilding them whenever
-   we build a new Emacs executable.
-   To solve the circularity, we use 2 different Emacs executables,
-   "emacs" is the main target and "bootstrap-emacs" is the one used
-   to build the *.elc and loaddefs.el files.
-   To solve the freshness issue, we used to use a third file "witness-emacs"
-   which was used to witness the fact that there is a bootstrap-emacs
-   executable, and then have dependencies on witness-emacs rather than
-   bootstrap-emacs, but that lead to problems in parallel builds (because
-   witness-emacs needed to be free from dependencies (to avoid rebuilding
-   it), so it was compiled in parallel, leading typically to having 2
-   processes dumping bootstrap-emacs at the same time).
-   So instead, we replace the witness-emacs dependencies by conditional
-   bootstrap-dependencies (via ${BOOTSTRAPEMACS}).  Of course, since we do
-   not want to rely on GNU Make features, we have to rely on an external
-   script to do the conditional part of the dependency
-   (i.e. see the ${SUBDIR} rule ../Makefile.in).  */
+### Bootstrapping.
+
+## Bootstrapping right is difficult because of the circular dependencies.
+## Furthermore, we have to deal with the fact that many compilation targets
+## such as loaddefs.el or *.elc can typically be produced by any old
+## Emacs executable, so we would like to avoid rebuilding them whenever
+## we build a new Emacs executable.
+## To solve the circularity, we use 2 different Emacs executables,
+## "emacs" is the main target and "bootstrap-emacs" is the one used
+## to build the *.elc and loaddefs.el files.
+## To solve the freshness issue, we used to use a third file "witness-emacs"
+## which was used to witness the fact that there is a bootstrap-emacs
+## executable, and then have dependencies on witness-emacs rather than
+## bootstrap-emacs, but that lead to problems in parallel builds (because
+## witness-emacs needed to be free from dependencies (to avoid rebuilding
+## it), so it was compiled in parallel, leading typically to having 2
+## processes dumping bootstrap-emacs at the same time).
+## So instead, we replace the witness-emacs dependencies by conditional
+## bootstrap-dependencies (via ${BOOTSTRAPEMACS}).  Of course, since we do
+## not want to rely on GNU Make features, we have to rely on an external
+## script to do the conditional part of the dependency
+## (i.e. see the ${SUBDIR} rule ../Makefile.in).
 
 .SUFFIXES: .elc .el
 
-/* These suffix rules do not allow additional dependencies, sadly, so
-   instead of adding a $(BOOTSTRAPEMACS) dependency here, we add it
-   separately below.
-   With GNU Make, we would just say "%.el : %.elc $(BOOTSTRAPEMACS)"  */
+## These suffix rules do not allow additional dependencies, sadly, so
+## instead of adding a $(BOOTSTRAPEMACS) dependency here, we add it
+## separately below.
+## With GNU Make, we would just say "%.el : %.elc $(BOOTSTRAPEMACS)"
 .el.elc:
 	@cd ../lisp; $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) compile-onefile \
 	                     THEFILE=$< EMACS=${bootstrap_exe}
 
-/* Since the .el.elc rule cannot specify an extra dependency, we do it here.  */
+## Since the .el.elc rule cannot specify an extra dependency, we do it here.
 ${lisp} ${SOME_MACHINE_LISP}: $(BOOTSTRAPEMACS)
 
-/* VCSWITNESS points to the file that holds info about the current checkout.
-   We use it as a heuristic to decide when to rebuild loaddefs.el.  */
+## VCSWITNESS points to the file that holds info about the current checkout.
+## We use it as a heuristic to decide when to rebuild loaddefs.el.
 ${lispsource}loaddefs.el: $(BOOTSTRAPEMACS) $(VCSWITNESS)
 	cd ../lisp; $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) autoloads EMACS=${bootstrap_exe}
 
-/* Dump an Emacs executable named bootstrap-emacs containing the
-   files from loadup.el in source form.  */
-
+## Dump an Emacs executable named bootstrap-emacs containing the
+## files from loadup.el in source form.
 bootstrap-emacs${EXEEXT}: temacs${EXEEXT}
 	cd ../lisp; $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) update-subdirs
 	if test "${CANNOT_DUMP}" = "yes"; then \
@@ -802,5 +795,8 @@ bootstrap-emacs${EXEEXT}: temacs${EXEEXT}
 	@: Compile some files earlier to speed up further compilation.
 	cd ../lisp; $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) compile-first EMACS=${bootstrap_exe}
 
-/* Insert either autodeps.mk (if AUTO_DEPEND), else deps.mk.  */
+## Insert either autodeps.mk (if AUTO_DEPEND), else deps.mk.
 @deps_frag@
+
+
+### Makefile.in ends here
diff --git a/src/README b/src/README
index 679fc961e53..b4ce91b150a 100644
--- a/src/README
+++ b/src/README
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
-  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009,
+  2010  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 See the end of the file for license conditions.
 
 
@@ -10,12 +10,10 @@ and installed, if the dumped Emacs (on Unix systems) is copied elsewhere.
 See the files ../README and then ../INSTALL for installation instructions.
 
 Under GNU and Unix systems, the file `Makefile.in' is used as a
-template by the script `../configure' to produce `Makefile.c'.  The
-same script then uses `cpp' to produce the machine-dependent
-`Makefile' from `Makefile.c'; `Makefile' is the file which actually
-controls the compilation of Emacs.  Most of this should work
-transparently to the user; you should only need to run `../configure',
-and then type `make'.
+template by the script `../configure' to produce `Makefile'.  This
+is the file which actually controls the compilation of Emacs.
+All of this should work transparently to the user; you should only
+need to run `../configure', and then type `make'.
 
 
 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
diff --git a/src/autodeps.mk b/src/autodeps.mk
index a5d2a04dcf4..c3cc91e22a7 100644
--- a/src/autodeps.mk
+++ b/src/autodeps.mk
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-/* autodeps.mk --- src/Makefile fragment for GNU Emacs
+### autodeps.mk --- src/Makefile fragment for GNU Emacs
 
-This is inserted in src/Makefile if AUTO_DEPEND=yes.  */
+## This is inserted in src/Makefile if AUTO_DEPEND=yes.
 
 ALLOBJS=$(START_FILES) ${obj} ${otherobj} prefix-args.o
 -include $(ALLOBJS:%.o=${DEPDIR}/%.d)
diff --git a/src/deps.mk b/src/deps.mk
index 08a435da6a9..1514ec5e61a 100644
--- a/src/deps.mk
+++ b/src/deps.mk
@@ -1,41 +1,41 @@
-/* deps.mk --- src/Makefile fragment for GNU Emacs
+### deps.mk --- src/Makefile fragment for GNU Emacs
 
-Copyright (C) 1985, 1987, 1988, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002,
-  2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
-  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+## Copyright (C) 1985, 1987, 1988, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002,
+##   2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
+##   Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
-This file is part of GNU Emacs.
+## This file is part of GNU Emacs.
 
-GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
-(at your option) any later version.
+## GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+## the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+## (at your option) any later version.
+## 
+## GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+## but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+## GNU General Public License for more details.
+## 
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+## along with GNU Emacs.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
-GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-GNU General Public License for more details.
+## Commentary:
+## 
+## This file is inserted in src/Makefile if AUTO_DEPEND=no.
+## It defines static dependencies between the various source files.
 
-You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-along with GNU Emacs.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+## FIXME some of these dependencies are platform-specific.
+## Eg callproc.c only depends on w32.h for WINDOWSNT builds.
+## One way to fix this would be to replace w32.h (etc) by $(W32_H),
+## a variable set by configure.  Does not seem worth the trouble.
+## Since the w32 build does not even use this file, you might ask
+## why these dependencies are here at all...
 
-Commentary:
+## nsgui.h: In fact, every .o file depends directly or indirectly on
+## dispextern.h and hence nsgui.h under NS.  But the ones that actually
+## use stuff there are more limited.
 
-This file is inserted in src/Makefile if AUTO_DEPEND=no.
-It defines static dependencies between the various source files.
-
-FIXME some of these dependencies are platform-specific.
-Eg callproc.c only depends on w32.h for WINDOWSNT builds.
-One way to fix this would be to replace w32.h (etc) by $(W32_H),
-a variable set by configure.  Does not seem worth the trouble.
-Since the w32 build does not even use this file, you might ask
-why these dependencies are here at all...
-
-nsgui.h: In fact, every .o file depends directly or indirectly on
-dispextern.h and hence nsgui.h under NS.  But the ones that actually
-use stuff there are more limited.
-
-Code:  */
+### Code:
 
 atimer.o: atimer.c atimer.h syssignal.h systime.h lisp.h blockinput.h \
  $(config_h)
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ xsettings.o: xterm.h xsettings.h lisp.h frame.h termhooks.h $(config_h) \
    dispextern.h keyboard.h systime.h coding.h composite.h blockinput.h \
    atimer.h termopts.h
 
-/* The files of Lisp proper.  */
+## The files of Lisp proper.
 alloc.o: alloc.c process.h frame.h window.h buffer.h  puresize.h syssignal.h \
    keyboard.h blockinput.h atimer.h systime.h character.h lisp.h $(config_h) \
    $(INTERVALS_H) termhooks.h
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ lread.o: lread.c commands.h keyboard.h buffer.h epaths.h character.h \
    charset.h lisp.h $(config_h) $(INTERVALS_H) termhooks.h coding.h msdos.h \
    systime.h frame.h blockinput.h atimer.h
 
-/* Text properties support.  */
+## Text properties support.
 composite.o: composite.c buffer.h character.h coding.h font.h ccl.h \
    frame.h termhooks.h $(INTERVALS_H) window.h lisp.h $(config_h)
 intervals.o: intervals.c buffer.h $(INTERVALS_H) keyboard.h puresize.h \
@@ -276,4 +276,4 @@ textprop.o: textprop.c buffer.h window.h $(INTERVALS_H) \
    lisp.h $(config_h)
 
 
-/* deps.mk ends here  */
+### deps.mk ends here
diff --git a/src/ns.mk b/src/ns.mk
index 255ffa7046b..d674466a407 100644
--- a/src/ns.mk
+++ b/src/ns.mk
@@ -1,29 +1,29 @@
-/* autodeps.mk --- src/Makefile fragment for GNU Emacs
+### autodeps.mk --- src/Makefile fragment for GNU Emacs
 
-Copyright (C) 2008, 2009, 2010  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+## Copyright (C) 2008, 2009, 2010  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
-This file is part of GNU Emacs.
+## This file is part of GNU Emacs.
 
-GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
-(at your option) any later version.
+## GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+## the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+## (at your option) any later version.
+## 
+## GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+## but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+## GNU General Public License for more details.
+## 
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+## along with GNU Emacs.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
-GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-GNU General Public License for more details.
+### Commentary:
 
-You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-along with GNU Emacs.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+## This is inserted in src/Makefile if HAVE_NS. 
 
-Commentary:
-
-This is inserted in src/Makefile if HAVE_NS. 
-
-The only reason this is in a separate file is because $ns_appdir,
-which appears as a target, is empty on non-NS builds.  Some makes
-do not like empty targets, even if they are never used.  */
+## The only reason this is in a separate file is because $ns_appdir,
+## which appears as a target, is empty on non-NS builds.  Some makes
+## do not like empty targets, even if they are never used.
 
 ${ns_appdir}: ${ns_appsrc}
 	rm -fr ${ns_appdir}
@@ -36,4 +36,4 @@ ${ns_appbindir}Emacs: emacs${EXEEXT}
 
 ns-app: ${ns_appdir} ${ns_appbindir}Emacs
 
-/* ns.mk ends here  */
+### ns.mk ends here