Minor improvements in the ELisp manual.

[gnu-emacs] / README

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+++ b/README
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
-Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009,
-  2010, 2011  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 2001-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 See the end of the file for license conditions.
 
 
-This directory tree holds version 23.3 of GNU Emacs, the extensible,
+This directory tree holds version 24.2.93 of GNU Emacs, the extensible,
 customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor.
 
 The file INSTALL in this directory says how to build and install GNU
@@ -38,13 +37,18 @@ oddities of your processor and operating system.  It creates the file
 process of building and installing Emacs.  See INSTALL for more
 detailed information.
 
-The file `configure.in' is the input used by the autoconf program to
+The file `configure.ac' is the input used by the autoconf program to
 construct the `configure' script.  Since Emacs has some configuration
 requirements that autoconf can't meet directly, and for historical
-reasons, `configure.in' uses an unholy marriage of custom-baked
-configuration code and autoconf macros.  If you want to rebuild
-`configure' from `configure.in', you will need to install a recent
-version of autoconf and GNU m4.
+reasons, `configure.ac' uses an unholy marriage of custom-baked
+configuration code and autoconf macros.
+
+The shell script `autogen.sh' generates 'configure' and other files by
+running the GNU build tools autoconf and automake, which in turn use
+GNU m4 and Perl.  If you want to use it, you will need to install
+recent versions of these build tools.  This should be needed only if
+you edit files like `configure.ac' that specify Emacs's autobuild
+procedure.
 
 The file `Makefile.in' is a template used by `configure' to create
 `Makefile'.
@@ -63,6 +67,7 @@ There are several subdirectories:
 `leim'      holds the library of Emacs input methods, Lisp code and
             auxiliary data files required to type international characters
             which can't be directly produced by your keyboard.
+`lib'       holds source code for libraries used by Emacs and its utilities
 `lib-src'   holds the source code for some utility programs for use by or
             with Emacs, like movemail and etags.
 `etc'       holds miscellaneous architecture-independent data files Emacs
@@ -88,6 +93,14 @@ There are several subdirectories:
 of the standard distribution of the OS.  The platform-specific README
 files and installation instructions should list the required tools.
 
+\f
+NOTE ON COPYRIGHT YEARS
+
+In copyright notices where the copyright holder is the Free Software
+Foundation, then where a range of years appears, this is an inclusive
+range that applies to every year in the range.  For example: 2005-2008
+represents the years 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008.
+
 \f
 This file is part of GNU Emacs.