-This directory tree holds version 20.0 of GNU Emacs, the extensible,
+This directory tree holds version 21.0.104 of GNU Emacs, the extensible,
customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor.
You may encounter bugs in this release. If you do, please report
in code we don't use often. See the file BUGS for more information on
how to report bugs.
-See the files `etc/NEWS' and `etc/news.texi' for information on new
-features and other user-visible changes since the last version of
-Emacs.
+See the file etc/NEWS for information on new features and other
+user-visible changes in recent versions of Emacs.
The file INSTALL in this directory says how to bring up GNU Emacs on
-Unix, once you have loaded the entire subtree of this directory.
+various systems, once you have loaded the entire subtree of this
+directory.
The file etc/PROBLEMS contains information on many common problems that
occur in building, installing and running Emacs.
using the Info files that come with Emacs.) See `etc/MAILINGLISTS'
for more information on mailing lists relating to GNU packages.
-The `etc' subdirectory contains several other files, named in
-capital letters, which you should look at when installing GNU Emacs.
+The `etc' subdirectory contains several other files, named in capital
+letters, which you might consider looking at when installing GNU
+Emacs.
The file `configure' is a shell script to acclimate Emacs to the
oddities of your processor and operating system. It creates the file
detailed information.
The file `configure.in' is the input used by the autoconf program to
-construct the `configure' script. Since Emacs has configuration
-requirements that autoconf can't meet, `configure.in' uses an unholy
-marriage of custom-baked configuration code and autoconf macros; it
-may be wise to avoid rebuilding `configure' from `configure.in' when
-possible.
+construct the `configure' script. Since Emacs has some configuration
+requirements that autoconf can't meet directly, and for historical
+reasons, `configure.in' uses an unholy marriage of custom-baked
+configuration code and autoconf macros. If you want to rebuild
+`configure' from `configure.in', you will need to install a recent
+version of autoconf and GNU m4.
The file `Makefile.in' is a template used by `configure' to create
`Makefile'.
subdirectories are architecture-independent too.
`info' holds the Info documentation tree for Emacs.
-`man' holds the source code for the Emacs manual.
+`man' holds the source code for the Emacs Manual. If you modify the
+ manual sources, you will need the `makeinfo' program to produce
+ an updated manual. `makeinfo' is part of the GNU Texinfo
+ package; you need version 4.0 or later of Texinfo.
- Note that the Emacs Lisp manual sources are distributed separately.
-(They are twice as large as the Emacs manual in the man subdirectory.)
+ Note that the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual sources are distributed
+separately. (They are twice as large as the Emacs Manual in the man
+subdirectory.)
`msdos' holds configuration files for compiling Emacs under MSDOG.
`vms' holds instructions and useful files for running Emacs under VMS.
`nt' holds various command files and documentation files that pertain
- to running Emacs on Windows NT.
+ to running Emacs on Windows NT.
+`mac' holds instructions, sources, and other useful files for building
+ and running Emacs on the Mac.
+
+ Building Emacs on non-Posix platforms requires to install tools
+that aren't part of the standard distribution of the OS. The
+platform-specific README files and installation instructions should
+list the required tools.
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