Mercurial > emacs
changeset 11733:ae51069237f2
Clarification about running executable in place.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Sun, 07 May 1995 06:13:58 +0000 |
| parents | 072d319a485f |
| children | e6675e3ed8b3 |
| files | INSTALL |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/INSTALL Sun May 07 04:36:44 1995 +0000 +++ b/INSTALL Sun May 07 06:13:58 1995 +0000 @@ -170,11 +170,14 @@ entries. 7) Run `make' in the top directory of the Emacs distribution to finish -building Emacs in the standard way. The final executable file will be -named `src/emacs'. If you want to have Emacs's executable programs -and data files installed as well, run `make install'. +building Emacs in the standard way. The final executable file is +named `src/emacs'. You can execute this file "in place" without +copying it, if you wish; then it automatically uses the sibling +directories ../lisp, ../lib-src, ../info. -By default, Emacs installs its files in the following directories: +Or you can "install" the executable and the other Emacs into their +installed locations, with `make install'. By default, Emacs's files +are installed in the following directories: `/usr/local/bin' holds the executable programs users normally run - `emacs', `etags', `ctags', `b2m', `emacsclient',