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authorGlenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>2014-10-15 00:03:28 -0700
committerGlenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>2014-10-15 00:03:28 -0700
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parent83e1e4d26078d2b9ec773fd5cc9fc0ea01d9d690 (diff)
* README: Remove some unnecessary detail.
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@@ -39,10 +39,7 @@ process of building and installing Emacs. See INSTALL for more
detailed information.
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.ac' uses an unholy marriage of custom-baked
-configuration code and autoconf macros.
+construct the `configure' script.
The shell script `autogen.sh' generates 'configure' and other files by
running the GNU build tools autoconf and automake, which in turn use