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authorRichard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>1998-04-21 06:14:05 +0000
committerRichard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>1998-04-21 06:14:05 +0000
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@@ -173,8 +173,8 @@ Emacs source code in the directory that `configure' is in.
To build in a separate directory, you must use a version of `make'
that supports the `VPATH' variable, such as GNU `make'.
-3c) Some people try to build in a separate directory
-by filling it full of symlinks to the real source directory.
+3c) Some people try to build in a separate directory by filling
+it full of symlinks to the files in the real source directory.
If you do that, `make all' does work, but `make install' fails:
it copies the symbolic links rather than the actual files.