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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2001-02-16 13:57:03 +0000
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2001-02-16 13:57:03 +0000
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downloademacs-89481484edd7e4314b814e495b544070d5cf9c82.tar.gz
List additional utilities required on MS-DOS to run lisp/Makefile.
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@@ -773,6 +773,14 @@ the necessary utilities; search for "MS-DOS". The configuration step
(see below) will test for these utilities and will refuse to continue
if any of them isn't found.
+Recompiling Lisp files in the `lisp' subdirectory using the various
+targets in the lisp/Makefile file requires additional utilities:
+`find' and `xargs' (from Findutils), `touch' (from Fileutils) GNU
+`echo' and `test' (from Sh-utils), `tr, `sort', and `uniq' (from
+Textutils), and a port of Bash. However, you should not normally need
+to run lisp/Makefile, as all the Lisp files are distributed in
+byte-compiled form as well.
+
If you are building the MSDOG version of Emacs on an MSDOG-like system
which supports long file names (e.g. Windows 95), you need to make
sure that long file names are handled consistently both when you