Re: Contributing to Emacs

[Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>]

>>>>> On Thu, 08 Sep 2022 15:38:40 +0200, Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> said:

    Óscar> Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:
    >>>>>>> On Thu, 8 Sep 2022 15:11:29 +0200, Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com> 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.

    Óscar> You are supposed to use the instructions on INSTALL for building an
    Óscar> Emacs checkout too. Among those instructions, at the beginning, it is
    Óscar> said that you must start with the steps written in INSTALL.REPO in case
    Óscar> you are building a checkout.

    Óscar> It looks fine to me.

Itʼs easy to miss the referral to INSTALL.REPO at the start of
INSTALL. Would it do any harm to refer to it from README as well?

Robert
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