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* INSTALL.REPO: Remove reference to obsolete configure scripts
on non-Posix platforms.

Fixes: debbugs:18323

* INSTALL: Prefer './configure FOO=BAR' to 'FOO=BAR ./configure'.
* INSTALL.REPO: pkg-config is no longer required to build from
the repository.
* autogen.sh: Don't check for pkg-config.
(progs): Remove pkg-config.
(pkg_config_min, AUTORECONF_ENV, env_space, ACLOCAL_PATH):
Remove.  All uses removed.
* m4/pkg.m4: New file, built by admin/merge-pkg-config.
* configure.ac: Remove unnecessary m4_pattern_forbid of ^PKG_ and
an AC_ARG_VAR of PKG_CONFIG_PATH.  pkg.m4 does that for us.
(EMACS_CHECK_MODULES): Remove workaround for old pkg-config bug,
as we use pkg.m4 from a newer pkg-config.
* admin/merge-pkg-config: New script.
* admin/notes/copyright: Update for m4/*.m4, in particular m4/pkg.m4.
* etc/NEWS: Prefer './configure FOO=BAR' to 'FOO=BAR ./configure'.
* etc/PROBLEMS (Build-time-problems): Remove pkg-config problem
that is no longer an issue.
* nt/INSTALL: Remove no-longer-needed notes about pkg-config.

* configure.ac: Use pkg-config's pkg.m4, rather than reinventing it.
Add explicit AC_SUBST's where needed.

* autogen.sh (progs): Add pkg-config.
(pkg_config_min): New variable.

* INSTALL.REPO: Mention pkg-config.

* etc/PROBLEMS: Mention a related issue that can occur with a local automake.

(ORDINARY_GOALS): New macro, which excludes 'bootstrap'.
(bootstrap, .PHONY): New rules.
* INSTALL.REPO: Document current procedure better.
Move copyright notice to just before license notice.

Fixes: debbugs:11603

It is confusingly named and rarely useful.  See, for example,
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2011-12/msg00089.html>.
* INSTALL.BZR: Don't mention --disable-maintainer-mode.
* Makefile.in (MAINTAINER_MODE_FLAG): Remove; all uses removed.
* configure.in: Remove --disable-maintainer-mode.
(USE_MAINTAINER_MODE, MAINT): Remove.
* admin/make-tarball.txt: Don't worry about maintainer mode.
* etc/NEWS: Mention this.

Ref: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2011-03/msg00863.html

* compile, config.guess, config.sub, depcomp, install-sh, missing:
Remove; autoreconf can supply them.

* Makefile.in (sync-from-gnulib): Don't sync config.sub,
config.guess, install-sh.  Pass -i to autoreconf.

* autogen/update_autogen (genfiles): Add compile, config.guess,
config.sub, depcomp, install-sh, missing.  Pass -i to autoreconf.
Discard non-error output from autoreconf in -q case.

* autogen/compile, autogen/config.guess, autogen/config.sub:
* autogen/depcomp, autogen/install-sh, autogen/missing: New files.

* autogen/copy_autogen: Add compile, config.guess, config.sub, depcomp,
install-sh, missing.

* autogen/README: Add compile, config.guess, config.sub, depcomp,
install-sh, missing.

* INSTALL.BZR, admin/make-tarball.txt: Add -i to autoreconf args.

* .bzrignore: Add compile, config.guess, config.sub, depcomp,
install-sh, missing.

Ref: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2011-03/msg00225.html

* autogen/: New directory, to be excluded from releases.
* autogen/copy_autogen, autogen/update_autogen: New scripts.
* autogen/README: New file.
* autogen/aclocal.m4, autogen/config.in, autogen/configure:
* autogen/Makefile.in: Add auto-updated generated files.

* autogen.sh: No longer a no-op, now it tests for autotools
and runs them as necessary.

* configure.in: Defaule maintainer-mode to on.

* aclocal.m4, configure, lib/Makefile.in: Remove files.

* src/config.in: Remove file.

* INSTALL.BZR, admin/make-tarball.txt: Update instructions.

Remove section about developer access to the Bazaar repository, which
is not really relevant to this file.

See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2009-12/msg00758.html

* emacs.c (REPORT_EMACS_BUG_PRETEST_ADDRESS): Set it to
bug-gnu-emacs rather than emacs-pretest-bug.

* mail/emacsbug.el (report-emacs-bug-pretest-address): Set
it to bug-gnu-emacs rather than emacs-pretest-bug.

* CONTRIBUTE, NEWS: Use bug-gnu-emacs rather than emacs-pretest-bug
for bug reports for development versions.

* trouble.texi (Checklist): Use bug-gnu-emacs rather than
emacs-pretest-bug for bug reports for development versions.

* emacs-pretesters, make-announcement: Use bug-gnu-emacs rather
than emacs-pretest-bug for bug reports for development versions.

* INSTALL.BZR, README: Use bug-gnu-emacs rather than emacs-pretest-bug
for bug reports for development versions.

* INSTALL, autogen.sh, configure.in, configure: Adjust accordingly.

(With the exception that it does not remove Makefile from lisp/ or src/).

(bootstrap-clean): New target that keeps TAGS around.
(../lisp/subdirs.el, ../lisp/loaddefs.el): New targets.
(bootstrap-emacs${EXEEXT}): Depend on subdirs.el.
* lisp/Makefile.in (all): New target.
(bootstrap-prepare): Remove.
* Makefile.in (SUBDIR): Include `lisp'.
(lisp): Depend on `src'.
(top_distclean): Don't remove config.status.
(bootstrap-clean): New target.
(maintainer-clean): Use it.
(bootstrap): Use bootstrap-clean.  Re-run config.status.
(src/bootstrap-emacs${EXEEXT}): New target.
(bootstrap-build): Use it.  Don't use bootstrap-prepare because
src/Makefile now takes care of it.
(bootfast, bootstrap-clean-before, bootstrap-clean-before-fast): Remove.

correct.

maintainer-clean is no longer relevant to this issue.

Mention esh-groups.
Mention autogen-clean.