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@@ -522,6 +522,12 @@ To build and install Emacs, type these commands:
config msdos
make install
+You may need to work around a type conflict between gmalloc.c and the
+header file djgppstd.h regarding declarations of memalign and valloc.
+Temporarily deleting those declarations from djgppstd.h while compiling
+Emacs or while compiling gmalloc.c should do it. We found out about this
+problem too late to include a more convenient fix--sorry.
+
To save disk space, Emacs is built with the idea that you will execute
it from the same place in the file system where you built it. As the
/usr/local/ subtree does not exist on most MSDOG systems, the