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* make-dist: Remove EMACS_UNIBYTE unsetting; it does nothing.

Don't try to run autoconf if --no-update.

No-one can remember what this file was for.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-10/msg00512.html

* nextstep/README: Move historical information to new file ../etc/NEXTSTEP.
* nextstep/AUTHORS: Merge into ./etc/NEXTSTEP and remove file.

* etc/NEXTSTEP: New file, extracted from ../nextstep/{AUTHORS,README}.

* make-dist: No more nextstep/AUTHORS.

* make-dist: Remove --compress.  Check for the appropriate
gzip-like executable, and if not found, don't compress.
Check version number in README, don't change it.
Use find for nt/inc/*.h.

Eg: there are no symlinks in the tree for a long time
Check for version in emacsver.texi.
Clean up *~ etc files using a find at the end.
Add etc/srecode.

* doc/misc/Makefile.in (emacsdir): New variable.
($(infodir)/efaq): Pass -I $(emacsdir) to makeinfo.
* doc/misc/faq.texi (VER): Replace with EMACSVER from emacsver.texi.

* doc/lispref/Makefile.in (emacsdir): New variable.
(MAKEINFO): Add -I $emacsdir.
(dist): Copy emacsver.texi.
* doc/lispref/book-spine.texinfo, doc/lispref/elisp.texi:
* doc/lispref/vol2.texi, doc/lispref/vol1.texi:
Set EMACSVER by including emacsver.texi.

* doc/emacs/emacsver.texi.in: New file.
* doc/emacs/emacs.texi: Set EMACSVER by including emacsver.texi.
* doc/emacs/Makefile.in (distclean): Delete emacsver.texi.
(dist): Copy emacsver.texi.

* admin/admin.el (set-version): No need to act on doc/ files any more.

* configure.in (AC_OUTPUT): Add doc/emacs/emacsver.texi.
* make-dist: Include doc/emacs/*.texi.in.

Emacs does not use Babyl files since 23.1, and you can use M-x unrmail.

* msdos/mainmake.v2 (install): Remove b2m.

* lisp/emacs-lisp/authors.el (authors-valid-file-names): Add b2m.c.

* lib-src/b2m.c, lib-src/b2m.pl: Remove files.
* lib-src/Makefile.in (INSTALLABLES): Remove b2m.
* lib-src/makefile.w32-in ($(BLD)/b2m.$(O)): Remove.

* doc/emacs/ack.texi (Acknowledgments): No more b2m.c.

* admin/quick-install-emacs (PUBLIC_LIBSRC_BINARIES): Remove b2m.

* INSTALL, make-dist: Remove references to b2m.
* Makefile.in (MAN_PAGES): Remove b2m.1.

* configure.in: Do not preprocess src/Makefile.in.
(cpp_undefs, CPP_NEED_TRADITIONAL): Remove.
(AC_EGREP_CPP): Test no longer needed.
* configure: Regenerate.

* config.bat: Do not preprocess src/Makefile.in.

* make-dist: No more Makefile.c files.

* INSTALL, src/README: Makefiles are not preprocessed.

* src/Makefile.in, src/autodeps.mk, src/deps.mk, src/ns.mk:
Convert comments to Makefile format.

* lib-src/Makefile.in (distclean): No more Makefile.c.
* src/Makefile.in (bootstrap-clean): No more Makefile.c.

* admin/notes/cpp: Remove file.

* admin/quick-install-emacs (AVOID): No more Makefile.c files.

* etc/PROBLEMS, etc/MACHINES: Remove details of cpp problems which can
no longer occur.

* make-dist: Look for version in src/emacs.c.
Use lisp/subr.el rather than lisp/version.el for location check.

* make-dist (src): Include *.mk.
* config.bat: Concatenate deps.mk onto the end of src/Makefile.
* configure.in (DEPFLAGS, MKDEPDIR): New output variables.
(deps_frag): New output file.
(AUTO_DEPEND): Remove this definition.

* src/Makefile.in (DEPDIR): New constant.
(DEPFLAGS): Set with configure, not cpp.
(MKDEPDIR): New, set by configure.
(.c.o, .m.o, ecrt0.o): Use $MKDEPDIR.
(clean): Use $DEPDIR.
(deps_frag): Include from configure.
Move static/dynamic dependency stuff to deps.mk/autodeps.mk.
* src/deps.mk, src/autodeps.mk: New files, extracted from Makefile.in.

* msdos/sed1v2.inp (DEPFLAGS, deps_frag): Edit to empty.
(MKDEPDIR): Edit to ':'.

(nextstep/Cocoa/Emacs.base/Contents/Resources/preferences.nib)
(nextstep/GNUstep/Emacs.base/Resources/preferences.gorm):
No longer make links.

(tempdir): Don't create directories preferences.gorm and
preferences.nib, they are no longer required.