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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2017-12-04 18:38:15 +0200
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2017-12-04 18:38:15 +0200
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* README: Document all the top-level directories. (Bug#29558)
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@@ -72,6 +72,8 @@ There are several subdirectories:
'lib' holds source code for libraries used by Emacs and its utilities
'lib-src' holds the source code for some utility programs for use by or
with Emacs, like movemail and etags.
+'lwlib' holds the sources of the Lucid Widget Library used on X.
+'oldXMenu' source files from X11R2 XMenu library, used in non-toolkit builds.
'etc' holds miscellaneous architecture-independent data files Emacs
uses, like the tutorial text and tool bar images.
The contents of the 'lisp', 'leim', 'info', and 'doc'
@@ -89,6 +91,10 @@ There are several subdirectories:
Nextstep port of Emacs, for GNUstep and macOS Cocoa.
'nt' holds code and documentation for building Emacs on MS-Windows.
'test' holds tests for various aspects of Emacs's functionality.
+'modules' holds the modhelp.py helper script.
+'admin' holds files used by Emacs developers, and Unicode data files.
+'build-aux' holds auxiliary files used during the build.
+'m4' holds Autoconf macros used for generating the configure script.
Building Emacs on non-Posix platforms requires tools that aren't part
of the standard distribution of the OS. The platform-specific README