From: Glenn Morris Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 07:03:28 +0000 (-0700) Subject: * README: Remove some unnecessary detail. X-Git-Tag: emacs-25.0.90~2635^2~679^2~55 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0b298692909debe108be77e9d357b49816bafb16;p=emacs.git * README: Remove some unnecessary detail. --- diff --git a/README b/README index 6c83c75bee3..ad412c4fb86 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -39,10 +39,7 @@ process of building and installing Emacs. See INSTALL for more detailed information. The file `configure.ac' is the input used by the autoconf program to -construct the `configure' script. Since Emacs has some configuration -requirements that autoconf can't meet directly, and for historical -reasons, `configure.ac' uses an unholy marriage of custom-baked -configuration code and autoconf macros. +construct the `configure' script. The shell script `autogen.sh' generates 'configure' and other files by running the GNU build tools autoconf and automake, which in turn use