From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Contributing to Emacs Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2022 15:38:40 +0200 Message-ID: <87czc6c7fj.fsf@telefonica.net> References: <83zgfafmpp.fsf@gnu.org> <875yhy9hm2.fsf@gmail.com> <87pmg680bc.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="13008"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:NdGWb1IkmoI/bcFiZcPSIR0hbaQ= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 08 15:52:45 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oWHxV-0003EB-G8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2022 15:52:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34064 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oWHxT-0002MI-4L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2022 09:52:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55736) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oWHk4-00005w-RJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2022 09:38:53 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:37930) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oWHk3-0004Xe-0B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2022 09:38:52 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oWHk1-0004ug-6M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2022 15:38:49 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:294955 Archived-At: Robert Pluim writes: >>>>>> On Thu, 8 Sep 2022 15:11:29 +0200, Christopher Dimech said: > > >> Only when youʼre building from a git checkout, in which case you > >> should read INSTALL.REPO, which has that step. > >> > >> Robert > > Christopher> @Robert. I would then suggest to include what INSTALL and INSTALL.REPO > Christopher> are meant for immediately at the beginning of README. > > Line 8 of README: > > The file INSTALL in this directory says how to build and install GNU > Emacs on various systems, once you have unpacked or checked out the > entire Emacs file tree. > > although perhaps that 'checked out' bit should be removed or refer to > INSTALL.REPO. You are supposed to use the instructions on INSTALL for building an Emacs checkout too. Among those instructions, at the beginning, it is said that you must start with the steps written in INSTALL.REPO in case you are building a checkout. It looks fine to me.