commit: Improve package documentation.

changeset: 4508:742a23369b74e442741e2c333da6fab80854093a parent: 4488:6b0000935adc3f79cb189350d6014d4b4aff734e user: Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; date: Sat Aug 02 02:43:19 2008 -0700 files: INSTALL description: Improve package documentation. diff -r 6b0000935adc3f79cb189350d6014d4b4aff734e -r 742a23369b74e442741e2c333da6fab80854093a INSTALL --- a/INSTALL Sat Jul 26 13:50:27 2008 +0300 +++ b/INSTALL Sat Aug 02 02:43:19 2008 -0700 ＠＠ -1,7 +1,7 ＠＠ XEmacs Installation Guide XEmacs Installation Guide Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 Board of Trustees, University of Illinois -Copyright (c) 1994-1999, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (c) 1994-1999, 2003, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the ＠＠ -61,11 +61,13 ＠＠ PACKAGE SYSTEM PACKAGE SYSTEM ============== -The file README.packages contain information vital to have a fully +The FAQ sections 1.7 and 2.1 contain information vital to have a fully working XEmacs. It includes a description of available packages, and how to bootstrap XEmacs from a minimal or a complete set of packages. This information was not included in this file only because it is too -large for this terse INSTALL. Please read README.packages now! +large for this terse INSTALL. The FAQ is available in Texinfo format +in man/xemacs-faq.texi, as an Info file once you build XEmacs, and +online at http://www.xemacs.org/Documentation/21.5/html/xemacs-faq_1.html. ADD-ON LIBRARIES ================ ＠＠ -794,8 +796,8 ＠＠ remove the files that `configure' create remove the files that `configure' created (so you can compile XEmacs for a different configuration), type `make distclean'. -READ README.packages -==================== +READ THE FAQ +============ Do it! ＠＠ -803,8 +805,8 ＠＠ PROBLEMS ======== The most common problem is that you forgot to read and follow the -directions in README.packages. You can not have a normal XEmacs -without downloading some additional packages. +directions for installing bootstrap packages in the FAQ. You can not +have a normal XEmacs without downloading some additional packages. See the file PROBLEMS in this directory for a list of various problems sometimes encountered, and what to do about them. PROBLEMS is also _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Patches mailing list XEmacs-Patches(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-patches