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bug#53627: 29.0.50; Incorrect installation instructions
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#53627: 29.0.50; Incorrect installation instructions |
Date: |
Sun, 30 Jan 2022 08:27:25 +0200 |
> From: "H. Dieter Wilhelm" <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>
> Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2022 23:05:38 +0100
> Cc: 53627@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> >> Please read INSTALL.REPO in the same directory, it says
> >
> > I can cope. I did not need that file. I was not asking for help. I
> > was reporting a bug.
>
> I'm not sure that this is a bug because in INSTALL it says:
>
> This file contains general information on building GNU Emacs.
> For more information specific to the MS-Windows, GNUstep/macOS, and
> MS-DOS ports, also read the files nt/INSTALL, nextstep/INSTALL, and
> msdos/INSTALL. For information about building from a repository checkout
> (rather than a release), also read the file INSTALL.REPO.
>
>
> Thus INSTALL is for installing from a release source archive and
> INSTALL.REPO is for installing Emacs from a source repository.
Indeed, and so I don't think there's a bug here, and I'm closing this
bug report.