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From: wbt@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Bill Thomason)
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Subject: Building new versions of emacs and DOC.
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Date: 21 May 91 19:49:22 GMT
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I'm currently building emacs and installing some of the non-machine dependent
files on sharable filesystems.  I'm setting up soft links to the machine
dependent files.  Everytime I recompile emacs I get a new version of DOC
named DOC-18.57.* .  The most recently compiled version references the most
recently created DOC-18.57.* file.

At my site I have to compile emacs for 3 different architectures.  Each
binary will refer to a differnt DOC-18.57 file.  I have seen no differences
between any two of the generated DOC files.  What I'd like to do is store
one copy of DOC and have it referenceable by the various copies of emacs
I will install.  I would like to avoid cluttering up the shared directory
with hard links to one copy of DOC.

Somewhere the installation process is keeping track the number of
compilations.  Where is that location?  If I can modify this number
will the modification affect only the naming convention of the DOC-18.57.*
and emac-18.57.* files?

thanks in advance,
-bill