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                      2: -- README.NeXT
                      3: --
                      4: -- Lennart Lovstrand, Thu Dec 10 16:28:00 1992
                      5: --
                      6: 
                      7: Attention Emacs Builders -- This version of GNU Emacs has been endowed with a
                      8: carefully crafted Makefile that will create a Jasperized environment for Emacs
                      9: in which to build and install the various parts in their preferred locations
                     10: on a NeXT system.  It will even make sure that config.h and paths.h are set up
                     11: to build a NeXT version of Emacs and synchronize version.el with the current
                     12: SGS version of the Emacs source.  All this with absolutely no change to the
                     13: GNU distribution at all.  (Not unless it itself changes in some drastic way,
                     14: of course.)
                     15: 
                     16: All you need to do to incorporate a new version of Emacs from FSF are the
                     17: following easy 6 steps:
                     18: 
                     19: 1. Unpack the compressed tar file.
                     20:        % tar xvfp emacs-42.13.tar.Z
                     21: 
                     22: 2. cd to the top level directory.
                     23:        % cd emacs-42.13
                     24: 
                     25: 3. Rename Makefile to be Makefile.orig.
                     26:        % mv Makefile Makefile.orig
                     27: 
                     28: 4. Copy Makefile.NeXT, README.NeXT, and SGS_ENV from the old version of emacs.
                     29:        % cp -p <olddir>/*.NeXT SGS_ENV .
                     30: 
                     31: 5. Link Makefile.NeXT to Makefile
                     32:        % ln Makefile.NeXT Makefile
                     33: 
                     34: 6. You're done; do "make" to try it out!

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