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@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
This file contains information that supplements the generic
installation instructions in file `INSTALL.gen'. It is meant for
people building directly from the development repository, rather than
-a release or snapshot tarball .
+a release or snapshot tarball.
If you want to start compiling the `groff' system with an existing
script `configure' you won't need the information in this file.
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ for creating the following and some more files:
configure
Makefile
-To change the file `aclocal.m4', run the shell command
+To update file `aclocal.m4', run the shell command
$ aclocal -I m4
@@ -46,16 +46,11 @@ Just ignore this. It doesn't occur in the actual versions of
You may even use the shell command
- $ autoconf
+ $ autoconf -I m4
instead of `autoreconf', but that will ignore some features. So
`autoreconf' is better.
-During the run of `autoconf' of `autoreconf', a directory
-`autom4te.cache' is created in the groff source top directory. These
-directory should be removed manually. The mentioning in `.gitignore'
-is not hard enough.
-
`automake' is not used currently, however, we plan to convert the
build system accordingly. If you have experience in creating
`Makefile.am' files we would be glad if you could help us in the