From 793faff195b21d0cefc2d9e89b609d195add7af0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Richard M. Stallman" Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 06:14:05 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] More of previous. --- INSTALL | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) 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. -- 2.39.2