changeset: 4549:e8a9d6a10efaa16af0cbfed0f6a0b9065f789eef
parent: 4547:66411359ce4eec5b18a399cc00452e8098a7c810
parent: 4548:51fa2a054060f3885f1d7979036cf4867f403ba3
user: Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org>
date: Sat Oct 25 21:52:48 2008 +0900
files: ChangeLog
description:
Merge in pkg-docs. Fix up ChangeLog.
diff -r 66411359ce4eec5b18a399cc00452e8098a7c810 -r
e8a9d6a10efaa16af0cbfed0f6a0b9065f789eef ChangeLog
--- a/ChangeLog Sat Oct 25 21:40:46 2008 +0900
+++ b/ChangeLog Sat Oct 25 21:52:48 2008 +0900
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ 2008-10-25 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephe
+2008-10-25 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org>
+
+ * INSTALL: Give better pointers to package documentation.
+
2008-10-25 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org>
* configure.ac (xemacs_cc_cc_mismatch): Improve g++ detection.
diff -r 66411359ce4eec5b18a399cc00452e8098a7c810 -r
e8a9d6a10efaa16af0cbfed0f6a0b9065f789eef INSTALL
--- a/INSTALL Sat Oct 25 21:40:46 2008 +0900
+++ b/INSTALL Sat Oct 25 21:52:48 2008 +0900
@@ -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
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