I downloaded the emacs-21.4, untared it nad tried to configure by using $ ./configure.But i got the below error"configure: error: can not find sources in . or .."

bash-2.03$ ls
aclocal.m4      confdefs.h      config.sub      INSTALL         make-dist       README          vpath.sed
AUTHORS         config.bat      configure       install-sh      Makefile.in     site-lisp
BUGS            config.guess    configure.in    leim            mkinstalldirs   src
ChangeLog       config.log      FTP             lisp            move-if-change update-subdirs

On 9/1/06, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 10:19:26 +0530
> From: "Arun kumar" < arun.chellam@gmail.com>
>
> I want to install emacs, so i downloaded "emacs-21.4a.tar" from the ftp
> site.
>
> As i am new to this,let me know how should i proceed with to install this in
> my solaris box..

Unpack it like this:

gunzip -c emacs-21.4a.tar.gz | tar xf -

Then read the file emacs-21.4/INSTALL, which explains how to build
and install Emacs.

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