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Clarify build environment

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@ -3,6 +3,15 @@ Distribution Build Scripts for Windows
The scripts are used to build the binary distribution zip files for windows.
Environment
-----------
A full installation of msys2 is required along for the build. The
various dependencies of Emacs need to be installed also. These change
over time, but are listed in build-deps-zips.py.
File System Organization
------------------------
@ -22,12 +31,12 @@ organized according to branches.
A checkout out of the master branch of the Emacs git repository.
~/emacs-build/git/emacs-$branch
~/emacs-build/git/emacs-$major-version
A worktree of the git repository containing the current release
branch. This has to be created by hand.
~/emacs-build/git/emacs-$version
~/emacs-build/git/emacs-$release-version
A branch of the git repository containing the last release. The
build-zips.sh file will create this for you.
@ -67,8 +76,8 @@ uploaded.
Build Process
-------------
For each major version
----------------------
### For each major version
The dependencies files need to be created. This can be around the time
of the pre-tests, then used for all releases of that version, to
@ -92,8 +101,7 @@ files will be created in ~/emacs-upload from where they can be signed
and uploaded with `gnupload`.
For snapshots from Master
-------------------------
### For snapshots from Master
Snapshots are generally created from master when there is a release
branch on which a release has already been created. At this point,
@ -114,8 +122,7 @@ used.
Now, run `build-zips.sh -s` to build a snapshot release.
For snapshots from a Release Branch
-----------------------------------
### For snapshots from a Release Branch
Snapshots can be built from a release branch; this is really only
useful before a pre-test has happened.
@ -127,8 +134,8 @@ version number must be added to the command line with `build-zips.sh
the version (e.g emacs-27-2019-12-26.zip) rather than than the Emacs
version (e.g emacs-27.0.50.zip).
For snapshots from another branch
---------------------------------
### For snapshots from another branch
Snapshots can be build from any other branch. There is rarely a need
to do this, except where some significant, wide-ranging feature is