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| author | Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> | 2014-03-27 15:41:57 -0400 |
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| committer | Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> | 2014-03-27 15:41:57 -0400 |
| commit | f6dce6c1d61bd1fd946f453c6fec30fa89e0181e (patch) | |
| tree | 36fbc6945e87ef614475902c18358910e68f54ca /INSTALL | |
| parent | 6730259fea22fcd4b7d28f3b57fef2d5776a2dad (diff) | |
Require GNU make to build Emacs
Ref: http://debbugs.gnu.org/16717#45
If no-one objects, we can then start getting rid of some of the
convoluted Makefile hacks that exist to support non-GNU makes.
* configure.ac: Require GNU make.
(HAVE_GNU_MAKE): Remove.
* INSTALL, etc/NEWS, etc/PROBLEMS: Update for this change.
* Makefile.in: Comment.
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL')
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 12 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 7 deletions
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ find some things, or what options to use. `src/config.h' file containing system-dependent definitions. Running the `make' utility then builds the package for your system. +Building Emacs requires GNU make, <http://www.gnu.org/software/make/>. +On most systems that Emacs supports, this is the default `make' program. + Here's the procedure to build Emacs using `configure' on systems which are supported by it. In some cases, if the simplified procedure fails, you might need to use various non-default options, and maybe perform @@ -49,7 +52,6 @@ sections if you need to. SOURCE-DIR/configure where SOURCE-DIR is the top-level Emacs source directory. - This may not work unless you use GNU make. 3. When `configure' finishes, it prints several lines of details about the system configuration. Read those details carefully @@ -435,12 +437,8 @@ 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. -To build in a separate directory, you must use a version of `make' -that supports the `VPATH' variable, such as GNU `make'. - -(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.) +(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 |