From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2015 16:12:25 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Document that GNU Make >= 3.81 is required to build Emacs X-Git-Tag: emacs-25.0.90~800 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=07742820e47cf807c0d000cfa71073419a1f18e6;p=emacs.git Document that GNU Make >= 3.81 is required to build Emacs * doc/lispref/internals.texi (Building Emacs): Document that GNU Make 3.81 or later is now required. --- diff --git a/doc/lispref/internals.texi b/doc/lispref/internals.texi index e620da0b4ff..e111d358ba0 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/internals.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/internals.texi @@ -32,7 +32,9 @@ executable. You don't have to know this material to build and install Emacs, since the makefiles do all these things automatically. This information is pertinent to Emacs developers. - Compilation of the C source files in the @file{src} directory + Building Emacs requires GNU Make version 3.81 or later. + + Compilation of the C source files in the @file{src} directory produces an executable file called @file{temacs}, also called a @dfn{bare impure Emacs}. It contains the Emacs Lisp interpreter and I/O routines, but not the editing commands. diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index 46910b021c7..82c30d47077 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ otherwise leave it unmarked. +++ ** Building Emacs now requires C99 or later. ++++ ** Building Emacs now requires GNU make, version 3.81 or later. ** New configure option --with-cairo.