diff etc/bundled-packages/README @ 4361:146742e30f05

Ensure LATE_PACKAGES_DIRECTORIES is a trivial search path.
author Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@xemacs.org>
date Wed, 26 Dec 2007 22:38:40 -0800
parents 232d873b9705
children fd714e8ba81e
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--- a/etc/bundled-packages/README	Wed Dec 26 22:21:45 2007 +0100
+++ b/etc/bundled-packages/README	Wed Dec 26 22:38:40 2007 -0800
@@ -1,10 +1,13 @@
 Package distributions may be placed in this directory.
 If present and a package-path is configured, packages can be installed
-using the top-level makefile.
+using the top-level Makefile.
 
 To configure the package path, use the --with-late-packages option to
-configure, which specifies the path to the directory containing the
-xemacs-packages and mule-packages hierarchies to install.
+configure, which specifies a single directory in which to install the
+xemacs-packages and mule-packages hierarchies provided.  If this is null,
+or contains a Unix-style search path (i.e., a colon is present in the
+argument of the --with-late-packages option), you will have to install
+the packages by hand.
 
 To find out if a distribution includes bundled packages, type