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- This directory contains the source files for the C component of GNU Emacs.
- Nothing in this directory is needed for using Emacs once it is built
- and installed, if the dumped Emacs (on Unix systems) or the Emacs
- executable and map files (on VMS systems) are copied elsewhere.
-
- On Unix, building is controlled by a makefile called `xmakefile'
- that is generated with machine-dependent contents from `ymakefile'
- using `cpp'. `Makefile' just invokes `cpp' to produce `xmakefile'
- and then runs `make' on `xmakefile'.
-
- See the file VMSBUILD in this directory for instructions on compiling,
- linking and building Emacs on VMS.
-
- The files `*.com' and `temacs.opt' are used on VMS only.
- The files `vlimit.h', `ioclt.h' and `param.h' are stubs to
- allow compilation on VMS with the minimum amount of #ifdefs.
-
- `uaf.h' contains VMS uaf structure definitions. This is only needed if
- you define READ_SYSUAF. This should only be done for single-user
- systems where you are not overly concerned with security, since it
- either requires that you install Emacs with SYSPRV or make SYSUAF.DAT
- world readable. Otherwise, Emacs can determine information about the
- current user, but no one else.
-
- `pwd.h' contains definitions for VMS to be able to correctly simulate
- `getpwdnam' and `getpwduid'.
-