Re: What should I do when building Emacs again with different configure options?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 28.07.2013 um 00:30 schrieb Xue Fuqiao:

> So could we remove the "./configure"?

No! Without invoking configure at least once after the 'make distclean' or 
out-packing the sources no Makefile is there and so GNU Emacs cannot be built. 
The configure run creates the Makefiles in the top level directory and in 
sub-directories with some kind of sources that need to be compiled to something 
more useful – these are for example the TEXI or LISP files, which become INFO 
or ELC files – and the 'make distclean' removes these Makefiles. It might be 
useful to document that configure can be invoked with arguments to prepare an 
optimised build. And that the build/install options can be retrieved by 
invoking "./configure --help"?

Or, if you want to remove something from the INSTALL file, then I'd recommend

        * intlfonts-VERSION.tar.gz 

These are pretty old bitmapped fonts. They cannot be used with GNU Emacs' font 
shaping capabilities. The GNU Freefonts (FreeSerif, FreeSans, FreeMono) exist 
and offer support for many scripts and languages.

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  Pete

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