GNU bug report logs - #18840
24.4; nt/README.W32: obsolete snippet

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 09:48:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.4

Done: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 18840 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 18840 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18840: 24.4; nt/README.W32: obsolete snippet
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 18:04:31 +0200

> Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 10:47:36 +0100
> From: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>
> 
> This snipped from the file nt/README.W32:
> -------------------------
> * Preliminaries
> 
>   Along with this file should be four subdirectories (bin, libexec,
>   share, and var).
> -------------------------
> is obsolete, since now this file is placed under
> 'share/emacs/VERSION/' on the binary distribution.
> 
> So, it should be either reworded or removed.

Actually, I think that file should be manually copied to the top-level
directory, after "make install" finishes.  Otherwise, the probability
of it being discovered by users is probably close to zero.

Thanks.
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