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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2025-01-11 07:44:23 -0500
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2025-01-11 07:44:23 -0500
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tree05eecbbec1a8b784e877790abe4716f0adb602ad /INSTALL
parent5060bf6ed64a6e96b4c660e6ad5204a23133b71d (diff)
parentd66b8d4becb6804d3bd912a000dc64ccfdbe6810 (diff)
Merge from origin/emacs-30
d66b8d4becb Fix checkbox's child creation 26c5fadf474 Document that 'package-vc' doesn't support built-in packages ee61b9a050b ; Fix documentation of completion commands ce43d13593a ; Simplify admin/run-codespell fa1470d0699 ; Remove duplicated word in files.el Commentary dabaea97465 Improve checkdoc-common-verbs-wrong-voice docstring 6de2ee5663d Document string-as-{unibyte,multibyte} as obsolete in manual 7f76f872ebf Fix go-ts-mode var spec indentation (Bug#75362) 01464fc882d Add "text" as a thing in tsx-ts-mode 59c57337923 Improve doc string of 'package-delete' 313a191d047 ; * admin/MAINTAINERS: Remove Kelvin White. 002960ceabf Clarify that 'mac' line ending convention is not used on ... 4210e065648 Add language server for Odin ee1034422b0 ; Improve documentation of function-type display 1c49edc4080 Modernize "Commentary" section of files.el 505c1123e18 * INSTALL: Add advice how to invoke 'make install'. (Bug... 82e16cae9cc Improve the documentation of 'key-valid-p' # Conflicts: # etc/NEWS # lisp/progmodes/typescript-ts-mode.el
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@@ -667,6 +667,12 @@ for its Lisp files by giving values for 'make' variables as part of
the command. See the section below called 'MAKE VARIABLES' for more
information on this.
+If the directories where 'make install' installs files are not writable
+by your user, you might prefer invoking 'make && sudo make install'
+instead. This first invokes 'make' to make sure all the required files
+are rebuilt with your user's permissions and ownership, and then
+installs them using the permissions of root.
+
7) Check the file 'dir' in your site's info directory (usually
/usr/local/share/info) to make sure that it has a menu entry for the
Emacs info files.