From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "H. Dieter Wilhelm" <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>
Cc: root@worik.org, 53627-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#53627: 29.0.50; Incorrect installation instructions
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2022 08:27:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83czk9buwi.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xm46v8y2tcy5.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> (dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de)
> From: "H. Dieter Wilhelm" <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>
> Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2022 23:05:38 +0100
> Cc: 53627@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> >> Please read INSTALL.REPO in the same directory, it says
> >
> > I can cope. I did not need that file. I was not asking for help. I
> > was reporting a bug.
>
> I'm not sure that this is a bug because in INSTALL it says:
>
> This file contains general information on building GNU Emacs.
> For more information specific to the MS-Windows, GNUstep/macOS, and
> MS-DOS ports, also read the files nt/INSTALL, nextstep/INSTALL, and
> msdos/INSTALL. For information about building from a repository checkout
> (rather than a release), also read the file INSTALL.REPO.
>
>
> Thus INSTALL is for installing from a release source archive and
> INSTALL.REPO is for installing Emacs from a source repository.
Indeed, and so I don't think there's a bug here, and I'm closing this
bug report.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-30 6:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-29 21:39 bug#53627: 29.0.50; Incorrect installation instructions worik
2022-01-29 21:48 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2022-01-29 21:52 ` worik
2022-01-29 22:05 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2022-01-30 6:27 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-01-30 1:50 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-01-30 22:54 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2022-01-31 15:25 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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