diff msdos/INSTALL @ 99581:c5c5f4559670

Update the list of utilities needed by lisp/Makefile and for bootstrapping.
author Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
date Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:41:36 +0000
parents 34fd2dee237b
children 9b0264b3b021
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--- a/msdos/INSTALL	Sat Nov 15 15:38:56 2008 +0000
+++ b/msdos/INSTALL	Sat Nov 15 15:41:36 2008 +0000
@@ -24,7 +24,10 @@
 need to run lisp/Makefile, as all the Lisp files are distributed in
 byte-compiled form as well.  As for bootstrapping, you will only need
 that if you check-out development sources from the Emacs source
-repository.
+repository.  (Note: If you are checking out of CVS, use the -kb option
+of the `checkout' and `update' commands, to preserve the original
+Unix-style EOL format of the files.  If some Lisp files are converted
+to DOS format, the build might fail.)
 
 If you are building the DJGPP version of Emacs on a DOS-like system
 which supports long file names (e.g. Windows 9X or Windows XP), you