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author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2017-12-04 18:38:15 +0200 |
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committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2017-12-04 18:38:15 +0200 |
commit | 5cf3c26f2d4047a4c37c7c70c41d735357149680 (patch) | |
tree | 4f52088269a72e3677851fe56205e2e94cc2c881 /README | |
parent | e9ea2065a82c46b3524633e4638834fc70ae3e6e (diff) | |
download | emacs-5cf3c26f2d4047a4c37c7c70c41d735357149680.tar.gz |
* 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 |