-
-<orderedlist>
-<listitem>
-
-<para>
- Edit the <literal>Makefile</literal> and check the settings of the following variables:
-
-<indexterm><primary>directories, installation</primary></indexterm>
-<indexterm><primary>installation directories</primary></indexterm>
-
-<variablelist>
-
-<varlistentry>
-<term><literal>platform</literal></term>
-<listitem>
-<para>
-the platform you are going to install for.
-</para>
-</listitem></varlistentry>
-<varlistentry>
-<term><literal>bindir</literal></term>
-<listitem>
-<para>
-the directory in which to install user-invokable
-binaries.
-</para>
-</listitem></varlistentry>
-<varlistentry>
-<term><literal>libdir</literal></term>
-<listitem>
-<para>
-the directory in which to install
-platform-dependent support files.
-</para>
-</listitem></varlistentry>
-<varlistentry>
-<term><literal>datadir</literal></term>
-<listitem>
-<para>
-the directory in which to install
-platform-independent support files.
-</para>
-</listitem></varlistentry>
-<varlistentry>
-<term><literal>infodir</literal></term>
-<listitem>
-<para>
-the directory in which to install Emacs info
-files.
-</para>
-</listitem></varlistentry>
-<varlistentry>
-<term><literal>htmldir</literal></term>
-<listitem>
-<para>
-the directory in which to install HTML
-documentation.
-</para>
-</listitem></varlistentry>
-<varlistentry>
-<term><literal>dvidir</literal></term>
-<listitem>
-<para>
-the directory in which to install DVI
-documentation.
-</para>
-</listitem></varlistentry>
-</variablelist>
-
-The values for these variables can be set through invocation of the
-<command>configure</command><indexterm><primary>configure</primary></indexterm>
-script that comes with the distribution, but doing an optical diff to
-see if the values match your expectations is always a Good Idea.