* INSTALL: Remove the "by hand" sections.

No-one needs to know those details, and this file is too long already.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 106 deletions

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index eb8857f9df..8ecee65aaa 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -207,9 +207,9 @@ corresponding command is `yum-builddep emacs'.
 
 DETAILED BUILDING AND INSTALLATION:
 
-(This is for a Unix or Unix-like system.  For MS-DOS and MS Windows 3.X,
-see msdos/INSTALL.  For later versions of MS Windows, see the file
-nt/INSTALL.  For GNUstep and Mac OS X, see nextstep/INSTALL.)
+(This is for a Unix or Unix-like system.  For GNUstep and Mac OS X,
+see nextstep/INSTALL.  For non-ancient versions of MS Windows, see
+the file nt/INSTALL.  For MS-DOS and MS Windows 3.X, see msdos/INSTALL.)
 
 1) See the basic installation summary above for the disk space requirements.
 
@@ -359,8 +359,7 @@ without sound support.
 `configure' doesn't do any compilation or installation itself.
 It just creates the files that influence those things:
 `./Makefile' in the top-level directory and several subdirectories;
-and `./src/config.h'.  For details on exactly what it does, see the
-section called `CONFIGURATION BY HAND', below.
+and `./src/config.h'.
 
 When it is done, `configure' prints a description of what it did and
 creates a shell script `config.status' which, when run, recreates the
@@ -415,11 +414,6 @@ those libraries are.  For example:
   ./configure \
     PKG_CONFIG_PATH='/usr/local/alsa/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/gtk+-2.8/lib/pkgconfig'
 
-The work of `configure' can be done by editing various files in the
-distribution, but using `configure' is easier.  See the section called
-"CONFIGURATION BY HAND" below if you want to do the configuration
-yourself.
-
 3b) To build in a separate directory, go to that directory
 and run the program `configure' as follows:
 
@@ -429,9 +423,6 @@ SOURCE-DIR refers to the top-level Emacs source directory which is
 where Emacs's configure script is located.  `configure' looks for the
 Emacs source code in the directory that `configure' is in.
 
-(Do not try to build in a separate directory by creating many links to
-the real source directory--there is no need, and installation will fail.)
-
 4) Put into `./lisp/site-init.el' or `./lisp/site-load.el' any Emacs
 Lisp code you want Emacs to load before it is dumped out.  Use
 site-load.el for additional libraries if you arrange for their
@@ -544,11 +535,7 @@ to enable it to write the lock files.  We believe this is safe.
 9) You are done!  You can remove executables and object files from
 the build directory by typing `make clean'.  To also remove the files
 that `configure' created (so you can compile Emacs for a different
-configuration), type `make distclean'.  If you don't need some, or all
-of the input methods from the Leim package, you can remove the
-unneeded files in the leim subdirectories of your site's lisp
-directory (usually /usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/).
-
+configuration), type `make distclean'.
 
 
 MAKE VARIABLES
@@ -656,94 +643,6 @@ Makefiles for the subdirectories, so you don't have to specify them
 when running make in the subdirectories.
 
 
-CONFIGURATION BY HAND
-
-This should not be necessary and is not recommended.  Instead of
-running the `configure' program, you have to perform the following steps.
-
-1) Copy `./src/config.in' to `./src/config.h'.
-
-2) Edit `./src/config.h' to set the right options for your system.
-
-3) Create `Makefile' files in various directories from the
-corresponding `Makefile.in' files.  This isn't so hard, just a matter
-of editing in appropriate substitutions for the @...@ constructs.
-
-The `configure' script is built from `configure.ac' by the
-`autogen.sh' script, which checks that `autoconf' and other build
-tools are sufficiently up to date and then runs the build tools.
-
-BUILDING GNU EMACS BY HAND
-
-Once Emacs is configured, running `make' in the top directory performs
-the following steps.
-
-1) Run `make epaths-force' in the top directory.  This produces
-`./src/epaths.h' from the template file `./src/epaths.in', changing
-the paths to the values specified in `./Makefile'.
-
-2) Go to directory `./lib' and run `make'.  This creates include files
-and libraries used in later steps.
-
-3) Go to directory `./lib-src' and run `make'.  This creates
-executables named `etags', `make-docfile', and others.
-
-4) Go to directory `./src' and run `make'.  This refers to files in
-the `./lisp', `./lib', and `./lib-src' subdirectories using names
-`../lisp', `../lib', and `../lib-src'.
-
-This creates a file `./src/emacs' which is the runnable Emacs,
-which has another name that contains a version number.
-Each time you do this, that version number increments in the last place.
-
-It also creates a file in `./etc' whose name is `DOC' followed by the
-current Emacs version.  This file contains documentation strings for
-all the functions in Emacs.  Each time you run make to make a new
-emacs, a new DOC file with a new name is made.  You must keep the DOC
-file for an Emacs version as long as you keep using that Emacs version.
-
-
-INSTALLATION BY HAND
-
-The steps below are done by running `make install' in the main
-directory of the Emacs distribution.
-
-1) Copy `./lisp' and its subdirectories, `./etc', and the executables
-in `./lib-src' to their final destinations, as selected in `./src/epaths.h'.
-
-Strictly speaking, not all of the executables in `./lib-src' need be copied.
-- The programs `hexl', `movemail', `profile', and `rcs2log'
-    are used by Emacs; they do need to be copied.
-- The programs `etags', `ctags', and `emacsclient' are intended to be
-    run by users; they are handled below.
-- The program `make-docfile' was used in building Emacs, and is
-    not needed any more.
-
-2) Copy the files in `./info' to the place specified in
-`./lisp/site-init.el' or `./lisp/info.el'.  Note that if the
-destination directory already contains a file named `dir', you
-probably don't want to replace it with the `dir' file in the Emacs
-distribution.  Instead, you should make sure that the existing `dir'
-file contains an appropriate menu entry for the Emacs info.
-
-3) Copy `./src/emacs' to `/usr/local/bin', or to some other directory
-in users' search paths.  `./src/emacs' has an alternate name
-`./src/emacs-EMACSVERSION'; you may wish to make a symbolic link named
-`/usr/local/bin/emacs' pointing to that alternate name, as an easy way
-of installing different versions.
-
-You can delete `./src/temacs'.
-
-4) Copy the programs `emacsclient', `ctags', and `etags' from `./lib-src'
-to `/usr/local/bin'.  These programs are intended for users to run.
-
-5) Copy the man pages in `./doc/man' into the appropriate man directory.
-
-6) The files in the `./src' subdirectory, except for `emacs', are not
-used by Emacs once it is built.  However, it is very desirable to keep
-the source on line for debugging.
-
-
 PROBLEMS
 
 See the file `./etc/PROBLEMS' for a list of various problems sometimes