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changeset 99573:34fd2dee237b
Update the list of utilities needed by lisp/Makefile and for bootstrapping.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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| date | Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:23:47 +0000 |
| parents | 2f09db1faf46 |
| children | 656411a47a1d |
| files | msdos/INSTALL |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/msdos/INSTALL Sat Nov 15 09:52:43 2008 +0000 +++ b/msdos/INSTALL Sat Nov 15 10:23:47 2008 +0000 @@ -16,12 +16,15 @@ The configuration step (see below) will test for these utilities and will refuse to continue if any of them isn't found. -Recompiling Lisp files in the `lisp' subdirectory using the various -targets in the lisp/Makefile file requires additional utilities: -`find' (from Findutils), GNU `echo' and `test' (from Sh-utils), and a -port of Bash. However, you should not normally need to run -lisp/Makefile, as all the Lisp files are distributed in byte-compiled -form as well. +Bootstrapping Emacs or recompiling Lisp files in the `lisp' +subdirectory using the various targets in the lisp/Makefile file +requires additional utilities: `find' (from Findutils), GNU `echo' and +`test' (from Sh-utils), `ls' and `chmod' (from Fileutils), `grep' +(from Grep), and a port of Bash. However, you should not normally +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. 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