[elpa] elpa-admin 059dde5 344/357: * GNUmakefile (RULE-singlepkg): Add rules to install&compile each package

[Stefan Monnier]

branch: elpa-admin
commit 059dde5614d4aebd00eefb19ed7f624ab0d6f8a7
Author: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Commit: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>

    * GNUmakefile (RULE-singlepkg): Add rules to install&compile each package
---
 README.org | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.org b/README.org
index 38481f9..9c3aa0c 100644
--- a/README.org
+++ b/README.org
@@ -23,6 +23,21 @@ to do:
 
     rm archive/[PKG]-[VERSION].tar; make build/[PKG]
 
+* Using packages in-place
+
+The packages can be installed and used in-place.  First you need to make
+sure the package(s) you can about are placed in the `packages` subdirectory,
+e.g. with `make externals`, and then you can to add that `.../packages`
+to your `package-directory-list`.  And once that is done you can do:
+
+    make packages/[PKG]
+
+to create the [PKG]-pkg.el and [PKG]-autoloads.el file as well as compile
+all the ELisp files in that package.  You can also do that on all the
+packages with:
+
+    make
+
 * Guidance for accepting packages
 
 ** We don't ask for copyright assignments to include packages in NonGNU ELPA.