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diff --git a/mac/INSTALL b/mac/INSTALL
index 1c44aa529f8..def7913f83a 100644
--- a/mac/INSTALL
+++ b/mac/INSTALL
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
* BUILDING EMACS ON MAC OS 8/9 AND MAC OS X -*- outline -*-
-Copyright (c) 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (c) 2001, 2002, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim
copies of this document as received, in any medium, provided that
@@ -58,16 +58,11 @@ must be typed to the shell to enable Emacs to locate its resources
correctly. You may want to create a symlink or alias to this path to
quickly access both the terminal and GUI versions.
-If you are building Emacs to run on Mac OS X and X Window, you need to
-create a directory containing statically-linked X libraries.
+If you are building Emacs to run on Mac OS X and X Window,
+instead of typing `./configure' above, type
- sudo mkdir /usr/X11R6/libstatic
- cd /usr/X11R6/libstatic
- sudo ln -s ../lib/lib*.a ../lib/X11 .
+ ./configure --without-carbon --with-x
-Instead of typing `./configure' above, type
-
- ./configure --without-carbon --with-x --x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/libstatic
To use colors in a terminal, put the following lines in the file
~/.termcap and log in again.
@@ -159,11 +154,6 @@ options to user
$prefix/bin/emacs to reduce disk space. Note, this
option may removed in the future.
-If you are intending to build a binary distribution for X windows, you
-will probably want to follow the directions above to create static
-X11R6 libraries and run the make-package script like this
-
-./make-package --with-x -C,--x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/libstatic
For usage of other options, use the --help option.
@@ -215,7 +205,7 @@ Emacs should build and run on a PowerMac running Mac OS 8.6 - 10.2.
You will need around 100 MB of disk space for the source files and
intermediate files.
-It will not run on machines running Mac OS 8/9 with more than 256 MB
+It will not run on machines running Mac OS 8/9 with more than 512 MB
of physical or virtual memory. It does not have this restriction when
it is run under Mac OS X. But the usual 128MB buffer limit of a
32-bit Emacs still exists.