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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> | 2003-12-30 08:08:22 +0000 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> | 2003-12-30 08:08:22 +0000 |
| commit | 462c6e815a01d64f0b6a166da9f8de20f34b0a26 (patch) | |
| tree | 48b019cede6c3eea2c9c91d5d52116bfea89b818 /INSTALL.CVS | |
| parent | 4d25144d00a10b580fbbbb708f19a5199a497a30 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-462c6e815a01d64f0b6a166da9f8de20f34b0a26.tar.gz | |
Renamed INSTALL-CVS to INSTALL.CVS to avoid file-name
clashes with install-sh on 8+3 filesystems.
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diff --git a/INSTALL.CVS b/INSTALL.CVS new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..3acb070de3b --- /dev/null +++ b/INSTALL.CVS @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ + Building and Installing Emacs from CVS + +Some of the files that are included in the Emacs tarball, such as +byte-compiled Lisp files, are not stored in the CVS repository. +Therefore, to build from CVS you must run "make bootstrap" +instead of just "make": + + $ ./configure + $ make bootstrap + +The bootstrap process makes sure all necessary files are rebuilt +before it builds the final Emacs binary. + +Normally, it is not necessary to use "make bootstrap" after every CVS +update. Unless there are problems, we suggest the following +procedure: + + $ ./configure + $ make + $ cd lisp + $ make recompile EMACS=../src/emacs + $ cd .. + $ make + +(If you want to install the Emacs binary, type "make install" instead +of "make" in the last command.) + +Occasionally the file "lisp/loaddefs.el" will need be updated to reflect +new autoloaded functions. If you see errors about undefined lisp +functions during compilation, that may be the reason. Another symptom +may be an error saying that "loaddefs.el" could not be found; this is +due to a change in the way loaddefs.el was handled in CVS, and should +only happen once, for users that are updating old CVS trees. + +To update loaddefs.el, do: + + $ cd lisp + $ make autoloads EMACS=../src/emacs + +If either of above procedures fails, try "make bootstrap". + +Users of non-Posix systems (MS-Windows etc.) should run the +platform-specific configuration scripts (nt/configure.bat, config.bat, +etc.) before "make bootstrap" or "make"; the rest of the procedure is +applicable to those systems as well. + +Questions, requests, and bug reports about the CVS versions of Emacs +should be sent to emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org rather than gnu.emacs.help +or gnu.emacs.bug. Ideally, use M-x report-emacs-bug RET which will +send it to the proper place. |