From: Richard M. Stallman Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 06:14:05 +0000 (+0000) Subject: More of previous. X-Git-Tag: emacs-20.3~1384 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=793faff195b21d0cefc2d9e89b609d195add7af0;p=emacs.git More of previous. --- diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index a9a2259d8f5..58f5208131f 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -173,8 +173,8 @@ Emacs source code in the directory that `configure' is in. To build in a separate directory, you must use a version of `make' that supports the `VPATH' variable, such as GNU `make'. -3c) Some people try to build in a separate directory -by filling it full of symlinks to the real source directory. +3c) Some people try to build in a separate directory by filling +it full of symlinks to the files in the real source directory. If you do that, `make all' does work, but `make install' fails: it copies the symbolic links rather than the actual files.