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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2017-03-17 21:23:35 +0200
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2017-03-17 21:23:35 +0200
commitd2458e5f1c003a85eb2de70ecb08d8951d5a3c3e (patch)
treee7fabab726316e6369faacedbc9d548e89418ff2 /nt
parent2f8935099c680f5e25afdf290d351180ee42fa39 (diff)
downloademacs-d2458e5f1c003a85eb2de70ecb08d8951d5a3c3e.tar.gz
MS-Windows followup for switch from Automake
* nt/INSTALL: * nt/INSTALL.W64: Remove references to Automake. (Bug#26100)
Diffstat (limited to 'nt')
-rw-r--r--nt/INSTALL30
-rw-r--r--nt/INSTALL.W646
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/nt/INSTALL b/nt/INSTALL
index 553ca5e1cb0..b7f47a5d7c2 100644
--- a/nt/INSTALL
+++ b/nt/INSTALL
@@ -182,8 +182,8 @@ build will run on Windows 9X and newer systems).
removal in the mingw-get GUI, then select Installation->Apply Changes.)
(Similarly, we recommend to refrain from installing the MinGW
- Automake and Autoconf packages; instead, install their MSYS builds
- available from the ezwinports site, see below.)
+ Autoconf package; instead, install its MSYS build available from the
+ ezwinports site, see below.)
At this point, you should be ready to configure and build Emacs in
its basic configuration. Skip to the "Generating the configure
@@ -290,11 +290,9 @@ build will run on Windows 9X and newer systems).
These should only be needed if you intend to build development
versions of Emacs from the repository.
- . Additional packages (needed only if building from the
- repository): Automake and Autoconf. They are available from
- here:
+ . Additional package (needed only if building from the repository):
+ Autoconf. It is available from here:
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/automake-1.11.6-msys-bin.zip/download
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/autoconf-2.65-msys-bin.zip/download
MSYS packages are distributed as .tar.lzma compressed archives. To
@@ -305,11 +303,10 @@ build will run on Windows 9X and newer systems).
For example, use D:\MSYS or D:\usr\MSYS as the top-level directory
from which you unpack all of the MSYS packages.
- After installing Automake and Autoconf, make sure any of the *.m4
- files you might have in your MinGW installation also exist in the
- MSYS installation tree, in the share/aclocal directory. Those *.m4
- files which exist in the MinGW tree, but not in the MSYS tree should
- be copied there.
+ After installing Autoconf, make sure any of the *.m4 files you might
+ have in your MinGW installation also exist in the MSYS installation
+ tree, in the share/aclocal directory. Those *.m4 files which exist
+ in the MinGW tree, but not in the MSYS tree should be copied there.
If/when you are confident in your MinGW/MSYS installation, and want
to speed up the builds, we recommend installing a pre-release
@@ -382,13 +379,10 @@ build will run on Windows 9X and newer systems).
$ ./autogen.sh
Checking whether you have the necessary tools...
(Read INSTALL.REPO for more details on building Emacs)
-
- Checking for autoconf (need at least version 2.65)...
- ok
- Checking for automake (need at least version 1.11)...
- ok
- Your system has the required tools, running autoreconf...
- Installing git hooks...
+ Checking for autoconf (need at least version 2.65) ... ok
+ Your system has the required tools.
+ Building aclocal.m4 ...
+ Running 'autoreconf -fi -I m4' ...
You can now run './configure'.
If the script fails because it cannot find Git, you will need to
diff --git a/nt/INSTALL.W64 b/nt/INSTALL.W64
index a12b7fc1773..b40f2238b5e 100644
--- a/nt/INSTALL.W64
+++ b/nt/INSTALL.W64
@@ -67,9 +67,9 @@ packages (you can copy and paste it into the shell with Shift + Insert):
mingw-w64-x86_64-gnutls \
mingw-w64-x86_64-zlib
-The packages include the base developer tools (autoconf, automake, grep, make,
-etc.), the compiler toolchain (gcc, gdb, etc.), several image libraries, an
-XML library, the GnuTLS (transport layer security) library, and zlib for
+The packages include the base developer tools (autoconf, grep, make, etc.),
+the compiler toolchain (gcc, gdb, etc.), several image libraries, an XML
+library, the GnuTLS (transport layer security) library, and zlib for
decompressing text. Only the first three packages are required (base-devel,
toolchain, xpm-nox); the rest are optional. You can select only part of the
libraries if you don't need them all.