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1 | Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 |
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 | ||
13 | $ ./configure | |
14 | $ make bootstrap | |
15 | ||
16 | The bootstrap process makes sure all necessary files are rebuilt | |
17 | before it builds the final Emacs binary. | |
18 | ||
19 | Normally, it is not necessary to use "make bootstrap" after every CVS | |
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20 | update. Unless there are problems, we suggest using the following |
21 | alternative procedure after you have done "make bootstrap" at least | |
22 | once: | |
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24 | $ ./configure | |
25 | $ make | |
26 | $ cd lisp | |
27 | $ make recompile EMACS=../src/emacs | |
28 | $ cd .. | |
29 | $ make | |
30 | ||
31 | (If you want to install the Emacs binary, type "make install" instead | |
32 | of "make" in the last command.) | |
33 | ||
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34 | Occasionally the file "lisp/loaddefs.el" will need be updated to |
35 | reflect new autoloaded functions. If you see errors about undefined | |
36 | lisp functions during compilation, that may be the reason. Another | |
37 | symptom may be an error saying that "loaddefs.el" could not be found; | |
38 | this is due to a change in the way loaddefs.el was handled in CVS, and | |
39 | should only happen once, for users that are updating old CVS trees. | |
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0e21fc54 | 41 | To update loaddefs.el, do: |
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43 | $ cd lisp | |
0e21fc54 | 44 | $ make autoloads EMACS=../src/emacs |
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10209171 | 46 | If either of the above partial procedures fails, try "make bootstrap". |
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47 | |
48 | Users of non-Posix systems (MS-Windows etc.) should run the | |
49 | platform-specific configuration scripts (nt/configure.bat, config.bat, | |
50 | etc.) before "make bootstrap" or "make"; the rest of the procedure is | |
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51 | applicable to those systems as well, except that the value of the |
52 | EMACS variable on the Make command line might be different, e.g., | |
53 | ../bin/emacs.exe or some such. | |
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7df58a0d | 55 | Questions, requests, and bug reports about the CVS versions of Emacs |
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56 | should be sent to emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org rather than gnu.emacs.help |
57 | or gnu.emacs.bug. Ideally, use M-x report-emacs-bug RET which will | |
58 | send it to the proper place. | |
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25dc5de2 | 61 | Note on using SSH to access the CVS repository from inside Emacs |
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62 | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
63 | ||
64 | Write access to the CVS repository requires using SSH v2. | |
65 | ||
25dc5de2 | 66 | If you execute cvs commands inside Emacs, specifically if you use |
58ec79cf | 67 | pcl-cvs, output from CVS may be lost due to a problem in the |
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68 | interface between ssh, cvs, and libc. Corrupted checkins are |
69 | also known to have happened. | |
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70 | |
71 | To fix the problem, save the following script into a file, make it | |
72 | executable, and set CVS_RSH to the file name of the script: | |
73 | ||
74 | #!/bin/bash | |
75 | exec 2> >(exec cat >&2 2>/dev/null) | |
76 | exec ssh "$@" | |
77 | ||
78 | This may be combined with the following entry in ~/.ssh/config to | |
79 | simplify accessing the CVS repository: | |
80 | ||
81 | Host subversions.gnu.org | |
82 | Protocol 2 | |
83 | ForwardX11 no | |
84 | User YOUR_USERID | |
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85 | |
86 | \f | |
87 | This file is part of GNU Emacs. | |
88 | ||
89 | GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify | |
90 | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by | |
91 | the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) | |
92 | any later version. | |
93 | ||
94 | GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
95 | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
96 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | |
97 | GNU General Public License for more details. | |
98 | ||
99 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | |
100 | along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the | |
101 | Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, | |
102 | Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. |