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c2e309f2 | 2 | Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
7f6d64f8 | 3 | See the end of the file for license conditions. |
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6 | Building and Installing Emacs from CVS |
7 | ||
8 | Some of the files that are included in the Emacs tarball, such as | |
9 | byte-compiled Lisp files, are not stored in the CVS repository. | |
10 | Therefore, to build from CVS you must run "make bootstrap" | |
11 | instead of just "make": | |
12 | ||
8669e78f | 13 | $ cvs update |
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14 | $ ./configure |
15 | $ make bootstrap | |
16 | ||
17 | The bootstrap process makes sure all necessary files are rebuilt | |
18 | before it builds the final Emacs binary. | |
19 | ||
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20 | If 'make bootstrap' fails, it may be necessary to do 'make maintainer-clean' |
21 | followed by configure before trying it again. (Occasionally the loaddefs.el | |
22 | file gets into a bad state due to changes in the Lisp libraries; this procedure | |
23 | forces it to be regenerated.) | |
24 | ||
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25 | If even 'make bootstrap' followed by 'make maintainer-clean' fails, it may |
26 | be that some reorganization of the tree has created a new subdirectory. Try | |
27 | this: | |
28 | ||
942b4750 | 29 | $ cvs update -d |
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30 | $ make maintainer-clean |
31 | $ ./configure | |
32 | $ make bootstrap | |
33 | ||
e0156c8d | 34 | Normally, it is not necessary to use "make bootstrap" after every CVS |
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35 | update. Unless there are problems, we suggest using the following |
36 | alternative procedure after you have done "make bootstrap" at least | |
37 | once: | |
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38 | |
39 | $ ./configure | |
40 | $ make | |
41 | $ cd lisp | |
42 | $ make recompile EMACS=../src/emacs | |
43 | $ cd .. | |
44 | $ make | |
45 | ||
46 | (If you want to install the Emacs binary, type "make install" instead | |
47 | of "make" in the last command.) | |
48 | ||
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49 | Occasionally the file "lisp/loaddefs.el" (and similar *-loaddefs.el |
50 | files in some subdirectories of lisp/, e.g. mh-e/ and calendar/) will | |
51 | need to be updated to reflect new autoloaded functions. If you see | |
52 | errors (rather than warnings) about undefined lisp functions during | |
53 | compilation, that may be the reason. Another symptom may be an error | |
54 | saying that "loaddefs.el" could not be found; this is due to a change | |
55 | in the way loaddefs.el was handled in CVS, and should only happen | |
56 | once, for users that are updating old CVS trees. Finally, sometimes | |
57 | there can be build failures related to *loaddefs.el. In that case, | |
58 | delete them before following the instructions below to update them. | |
59 | ||
60 | To update loaddefs.el (and similar files), do: | |
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61 | |
62 | $ cd lisp | |
0e21fc54 | 63 | $ make autoloads EMACS=../src/emacs |
93e3e16a | 64 | |
10209171 | 65 | If either of the above partial procedures fails, try "make bootstrap". |
e0156c8d | 66 | |
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67 | Very occasionally changes in the source can introduce |
68 | incompatibilities with previous builds. If a bootstrap fails, as a | |
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69 | last resort try "make maintainer-clean" before configuring and |
70 | bootstrapping again. If CPU time is not an issue, the most thorough | |
71 | way to rebuild, and avoid any spurious problems, is always to use this | |
72 | method. | |
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74 | Users of non-Posix systems (MS-Windows etc.) should run the |
75 | platform-specific configuration scripts (nt/configure.bat, config.bat, | |
76 | etc.) before "make bootstrap" or "make"; the rest of the procedure is | |
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77 | applicable to those systems as well, except that the value of the |
78 | EMACS variable on the Make command line might be different, e.g., | |
79 | ../bin/emacs.exe or some such. | |
e0156c8d | 80 | |
7df58a0d | 81 | Questions, requests, and bug reports about the CVS versions of Emacs |
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82 | should be sent to emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org rather than gnu.emacs.help |
83 | or gnu.emacs.bug. Ideally, use M-x report-emacs-bug RET which will | |
84 | send it to the proper place. | |
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85 | |
86 | ||
25dc5de2 | 87 | Note on using SSH to access the CVS repository from inside Emacs |
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88 | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
89 | ||
90 | Write access to the CVS repository requires using SSH v2. | |
91 | ||
25dc5de2 | 92 | If you execute cvs commands inside Emacs, specifically if you use |
58ec79cf | 93 | pcl-cvs, output from CVS may be lost due to a problem in the |
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94 | interface between ssh, cvs, and libc. Corrupted checkins are |
95 | also known to have happened. | |
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96 | |
97 | To fix the problem, save the following script into a file, make it | |
98 | executable, and set CVS_RSH to the file name of the script: | |
99 | ||
100 | #!/bin/bash | |
101 | exec 2> >(exec cat >&2 2>/dev/null) | |
102 | exec ssh "$@" | |
103 | ||
104 | This may be combined with the following entry in ~/.ssh/config to | |
105 | simplify accessing the CVS repository: | |
106 | ||
107 | Host subversions.gnu.org | |
108 | Protocol 2 | |
109 | ForwardX11 no | |
110 | User YOUR_USERID | |
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111 | |
112 | \f | |
113 | This file is part of GNU Emacs. | |
114 | ||
b33ba812 | 115 | GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify |
7f6d64f8 | 116 | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
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117 | the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or |
118 | (at your option) any later version. | |
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119 | |
120 | GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
121 | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
122 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | |
123 | GNU General Public License for more details. | |
124 | ||
125 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | |
b33ba812 | 126 | along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. |