Mercurial > emacs
changeset 102216:7810e6d3d133
Modify for barebin distribution, as undumped distribution no longer exists.
| author | Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org> |
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| date | Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:31:55 +0000 |
| parents | 00f11ed06c0d |
| children | e368bec025a6 |
| files | admin/nt/README-UNDUMP.W32 |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/admin/nt/README-UNDUMP.W32 Mon Feb 23 12:23:44 2009 +0000 +++ b/admin/nt/README-UNDUMP.W32 Mon Feb 23 12:31:55 2009 +0000 @@ -4,18 +4,21 @@ Emacs for Windows -This README file describes how to dump a bare precompiled version of GNU -Emacs for Windows NT/2000/XP and Windows 95/98/Me. This distribution -supplements the standard dumped precompiled distribution of Emacs, which -you can download from: +This README file describes how to dump a bare precompiled version of +GNU Emacs for Windows. This barebin distribution supplements the +standard distribution of Emacs, which you can download from: + + ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/ - ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/ +If you do not have the "bin" or "src" distribution, then you will need +to download one of those before you can use this barebin version. -If you do not have the "bin" distribution, then you will need to -download it before you can use this undumped version. Also note that -you should only need to dump Emacs yourself if you want to dump Emacs -with more elisp files than are included normally, or to rebuild Emacs -after patching one of the elisp files that is preloaded. +An additional feature of the barebin version that is not present in +the bin distribution is that it contains an undumped binary of Emacs +(temacs.exe). This can be used to dump Emacs yourself. Note that you +should only need to dump Emacs yourself if you want to dump Emacs with +more elisp files than are included normally, or to rebuild Emacs after +patching one of the elisp files that is preloaded. The dumping process consists of running a bare Emacs, loading up a number of general elisp files, and then creating a new Emacs executable @@ -23,7 +26,7 @@ Emacs has already been dumped with the standard configuration. To dump Emacs, unpack this distribution into the directory created by -unpacking the corresponding standard precompiled distribution. To +unpacking the corresponding standard src or bin distribution. To verify that you unpacked in the proper place, check to make sure that you now have a temacs.exe file in the bin directory. @@ -32,10 +35,10 @@ to use (the original one is renamed to emacs.exe.orig; this is not overwritten if you run dump more than once). -For more information about running Emacs, read the README.W32 file that -came with the standard dumped precompiled distribution. If you have -problems with Emacs, including problems with dumping, send email to -"help-emacs-windows@gnu.org". +For more information about running Emacs, read the README.W32 file +that came with this distribution. If you need help using Emacs on +Windows, including problems with dumping, send email to +<help-emacs-windows@gnu.org>. Enjoy!