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+++ b/README
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-Copyright (C) 2001-2012  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 2001-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 See the end of the file for license conditions.
 
 
-This directory tree holds version 24.0.92 of GNU Emacs, the extensible,
+This directory tree holds version 24.4.50 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
@@ -24,8 +24,9 @@ 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
 can find and read that section using the Info files that come with
-Emacs.)  See `etc/MAILINGLISTS' for more information on mailing lists
-relating to GNU packages.
+Emacs.)  For a list of mailing lists related to Emacs, see
+<http://savannah.gnu.org/mail/?group=emacs>.  For the complete
+list of GNU mailing lists, see <http://lists.gnu.org/>.
 
 The `etc' subdirectory contains several other files, named in capital
 letters, which you might consider looking at when installing GNU
@@ -37,13 +38,18 @@ oddities of your processor and operating system.  It creates the file
 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'.
@@ -59,9 +65,10 @@ There are several subdirectories:
             its primitives, the redisplay code, and some basic editing
             functions).
 `lisp'      holds the Emacs Lisp code for Emacs (most everything else).
-`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.
+`leim'      holds the original source files for the generated files
+            in lisp/leim.  These form the library of Emacs input methods,
+            required to type international characters that 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.