-Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
- Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 2001-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end of the file for license conditions.
-This directory tree holds version 23.1.50 of GNU Emacs, the extensible,
+This directory tree holds version 24.2.50 of GNU Emacs, the extensible,
customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor.
The file INSTALL in this directory says how to build and install GNU
You may encounter bugs in this release. If you do, please report
them; your bug reports are valuable contributions to the FSF, since
they allow us to notice and fix problems on machines we don't have, or
-in code we don't use often. Please send bug reports for released
-versions of Emacs sent to the mailing list bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
-Please send bug reports for pretest versions of Emacs, and versions
-from the Savannah.gnu.org repository, to emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org.
+in code we don't use often. Please send bug reports to the mailing
+list bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. If possible, use M-x report-emacs-bug.
See the "Bugs" section of the Emacs manual for more information on how
to report bugs. (The file `BUGS' in this directory explains how you
process of building and installing Emacs. See INSTALL for more
detailed information.
-The file `configure.in' is the input used by the autoconf program to
+The file `configure.ac' is the input used by the autoconf program to
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.
+reasons, `configure.ac' uses an unholy marriage of custom-baked
+configuration code and autoconf macros.
+
+The shell script `autogen.sh' generates 'configure' and other files by
+running the GNU build tools autoconf and automake, which in turn use
+GNU m4 and Perl. If you want to use it, you will need to install
+recent versions of these build tools. This should be needed only if
+you edit files like `configure.ac' that specify Emacs's autobuild
+procedure.
The file `Makefile.in' is a template used by `configure' to create
`Makefile'.
`leim' holds the library of Emacs input methods, Lisp code and
auxiliary data files required to type international characters
which can't be directly produced by your keyboard.
+`lib' holds source code for libraries used by Emacs and its utilities
`lib-src' holds the source code for some utility programs for use by or
with Emacs, like movemail and etags.
-`etc' holds miscellaneous architecture-independent data files
- Emacs uses, like the tutorial text and the Zippy the Pinhead
- quote database. The contents of the `lisp', `leim', `info',
- `man', `lispref', and `lispintro' subdirectories are
- architecture-independent too.
+`etc' holds miscellaneous architecture-independent data files Emacs
+ uses, like the tutorial text and tool bar images.
+ The contents of the `lisp', `leim', `info', and `doc'
+ subdirectories are architecture-independent too.
`info' holds the Info documentation tree for Emacs.
`doc/emacs' 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 4.6 or later of Texinfo.
+ package; you need a suitably recent version of Texinfo.
`doc/lispref' holds the source code for the Emacs Lisp reference manual.
`doc/lispintro' holds the source code for the Introduction to Programming
in Emacs Lisp manual.
to building and running Emacs on Windows 9X/ME/NT/2000/XP.
`test' holds tests for various aspects of Emacs's functionality.
- 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.
+ Building Emacs on non-Posix platforms requires 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.
+
+\f
+NOTE ON COPYRIGHT YEARS
+
+In copyright notices where the copyright holder is the Free Software
+Foundation, then where a range of years appears, this is an inclusive
+range that applies to every year in the range. For example: 2005-2008
+represents the years 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008.
\f
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