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Add --with-font-backend option.
author Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
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1 Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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7 Emacs is a collaborative project and we encourage contributions from
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131 The "Tips and Conventions" Appendix of the Emacs Lisp Reference.
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153 Bug reports for released versions are sent to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
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155 Bug reports for development versions are sent to emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org.
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157 You can subscribe to the mailing lists at savannah.gnu.org/projects/emacs.
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159 You can find the mailing lists archives at lists.gnu.org or gmane.org.
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162 ** Document your changes.
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164 Think carefully about whether your change requires updating the
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165 documentation. If it does, you can either do this yourself or add an
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166 item to the NEWS file.
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168 If you document your change in NEWS, please mark the NEWS entry with
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169 the documentation status of the change: if you submit the changes for
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170 the manuals, mark it with "+++"; if it doesn't need to be documented,
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171 mark it with "---"; if it needs to be documented, but you didn't
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172 submit documentation changes, leave the NEWS entry unmarked. (These
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173 marks are checked by the Emacs maintainers to make sure every change
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174 was reflected in the manuals.)
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177 ** Understanding Emacs Internals.
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179 The best way to understand Emacs Internals is to read the code,
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180 but the nodes "Tips" and "GNU Emacs Internals" in the Appendix
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181 of the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual may also help.
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183 The file etc/DEBUG describes how to debug Emacs bugs.
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187 * How to Maintain Copyright Years for GNU Emacs
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189 See admin/notes/copyright.
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191 ** Our lawyer says it is ok if we add, to each file that has been in Emacs
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192 since Emacs 21 came out in 2001, all the subsequent years. We don't
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193 need to check whether *that file* was changed in those years.
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194 It's sufficient that *Emacs* was changed in those years (and it was!).
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196 ** For those files that have been added since then, we should add
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197 the year it was added to Emacs, and all subsequent years.
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199 ** For the refcards under etc/, it's ok to simply use the latest year
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200 (typically in a `\def\year{YEAR}' expression) for the rendered copyright
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201 notice, while maintaining the full list of years in the copyright notice
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202 in the comments.
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206 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
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208 GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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209 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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210 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
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211 any later version.
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213 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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214 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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215 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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216 GNU General Public License for more details.
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218 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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219 along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the
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220 Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
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221 Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
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223 Local variables:
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224 mode: outline
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225 paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$"
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226 end:
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