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authorJason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>2004-10-17 20:20:26 +0000
committerJason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>2004-10-17 20:20:26 +0000
commit1040d0412c2c041284248770e351c50feeebc4e7 (patch)
tree5322e10cc5eb6b9743871c05ce9430a6b0ae4963
parent957237cb1fa5436179560837d8ed53fe82d9f9d6 (diff)
downloademacs-1040d0412c2c041284248770e351c50feeebc4e7.tar.gz
Added note to see INSTALL.CVS, and to make sure touch creates files.
-rw-r--r--nt/INSTALL9
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diff --git a/nt/INSTALL b/nt/INSTALL
index 646054e07f4..09de93bca01 100644
--- a/nt/INSTALL
+++ b/nt/INSTALL
@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@
fixing first. The easiest way to do this and avoid future conflicts
is to run the following command in this (emacs/nt) directory:
cvs update -kb
+ In addition to this file, you should also read INSTALL.CVS in the
+ parent directory, and make sure that you have a version of "touch.exe"
+ in your path, and that it will create files that do not yet exist.
To compile Emacs, you will need either Microsoft Visual C++ 2.0 or
later and nmake, or a Windows port of GCC 2.95 or later with Mingw
@@ -31,10 +34,14 @@
like this, we recommend the use of the supported compilers mentioned
in the previous paragraph.
+ You will also need a copy of the Posix cp, rm and mv programs. These
+ and other useful Posix utilities can be obtained from the Mingw or
+ Cygwin projects.
+
If you build Emacs on Windows 9X or ME, not on Windows 2K/XP or
Windows NT, we suggest to install the Cygwin port of Bash.
- Please see http://www.mingw.org for pointers to GCC/Mingw binaries.
+ Please see http://www.mingw.org for pointers to GCC/Mingw and binaries.
For reference, here is a list of which builds of GNU make are known
to work or not, and whether they work in the presence and/or absence