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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2023-08-09 22:03:00 +0300
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2023-08-09 22:03:00 +0300
commit020b5d7fefd255117ab4fca636146b5b59c8fb84 (patch)
treee8d01c893b2ff955e747ce11f409d7a34258dd65 /INSTALL
parent164588b174774eba0c3bd6999633a39bed748195 (diff)
downloademacs-020b5d7fefd255117ab4fca636146b5b59c8fb84.tar.gz
; Improve INSTALL files
* INSTALL: * java/INSTALL: Improve and clarify instructions.
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@@ -4,13 +4,16 @@ Inc.
See the end of the file for license conditions.
-This file contains general information on building GNU Emacs. For
-more information specific to the MS-Windows, GNUstep/macOS, MS-DOS,
-and Android ports, also read the files nt/INSTALL, nextstep/INSTALL,
-msdos/INSTALL, and java/INSTALL.
-
-For information about building from a Git checkout (rather than an
-Emacs release), read the INSTALL.REPO file first.
+This file contains general information on building GNU Emacs. If you
+are building an Emacs release tarball on a Unix or a GNU system, the
+instructions in this file should be sufficient. For other
+configurations, we have additional specialized files:
+
+ . INSTALL.REPO if you build from a Git checkout
+ . nt/INSTALL if you build for MS-Windows
+ . nextstep/INSTALL if you build for GNUstep/macOS
+ . java/INSTALL if you build for Android
+ . msdos/INSTALL if you build for MS-DOS
BASIC INSTALLATION