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authorDave Love <fx@gnu.org>2001-01-04 19:17:21 +0000
committerDave Love <fx@gnu.org>2001-01-04 19:17:21 +0000
commite4ecbb43e8a872b5670eea4c727422144e1dbb74 (patch)
tree2c169d89ab2209dd85c48e1c8c686f185df8fa24 /INSTALL
parente8631ae45a53ca1773e504215862e9b9edbe20b7 (diff)
downloademacs-e4ecbb43e8a872b5670eea4c727422144e1dbb74.tar.gz
Tweaks to configure instructions and saving space.
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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 3c90a7e88e3..4d2766a722c 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -41,7 +41,8 @@ that, so please refer to them if the simple procedure does not work.
SOURCE-DIR/configure
- where SOURCE-DIR is the top-level Emacs source directory.
+ where SOURCE-DIR is the top-level Emacs source directory. This
+ may not work unless you use GNU make.
4. When `configure' finishes, it prints several lines of details
about the system configuration. Read those details carefully
@@ -55,8 +56,8 @@ that, so please refer to them if the simple procedure does not work.
to DETAILED BUILDING AND INSTALLATION section below.
If `configure' didn't find some image support libraries, such as
- Xpm, jpeg, etc., refer to the subsection "Image support
- libraries", below.
+ Xpm, jpeg, etc., and you want to use them refer to the subsection
+ "Image support libraries", below.
If the details printed by `configure' don't make any sense to
you, assume that `configure' did its job and proceed.
@@ -90,6 +91,10 @@ that, so please refer to them if the simple procedure does not work.
make clean
+ You can also save some space by compressing (with `gzip') Info files
+ and installed Lisp source (.el) files which have corresponding .elc
+ versions.
+
ADDITIONAL DISTRIBUTION FILES
@@ -348,8 +353,8 @@ preprocessor, CFLAGS are compilation options, LDFLAGS are options used
when linking, LIBS are libraries to link against, and CC is the
command which invokes the compiler.
-Here's an example of a `configure' invocation which uses these
-variables:
+Here's an example of a `configure' invocation, assuming a Bourne-like
+shell such as Bash, which uses these variables:
CPPFLAGS='-I/foo/myinclude' LDFLAGS='-L/bar/mylib' \
CFLAGS='-O3' LIBS='-lfoo -lbar' ./configure
@@ -842,7 +847,7 @@ sibling directory called bin. For example, if you build in directory
subdirectories /emacs/src and /emacs/lib-src if you wish. The only
subdirectories you need to keep are bin, lisp, etc and info. (If you
installed Leim, keep the leim subdirectory, and if you installed
-intlfonts, keep the fonts directory and all its sibdirectories as well.)
+intlfonts, keep the fonts directory and all its subdirectories as well.)
The bin subdirectory should be added to your PATH. The msdos
subdirectory includes a PIF and an icon file for Emacs which you might
find useful if you run Emacs under MS Windows.