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57ebf0be | 1 | Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 |
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 | ||
90ce0919 | 13 | $ cvs update -dP |
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14 | $ make bootstrap |
15 | ||
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16 | Of course, if this is the first time you go through it, you'll need to do |
17 | ./configure before the "make bootstrap". | |
1a93c12f | 18 | |
e0156c8d | 19 | Normally, it is not necessary to use "make bootstrap" after every CVS |
49f6eb95 | 20 | update. "make" should work in 90% of the cases and be much quicker. |
e0156c8d | 21 | |
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22 | $ make |
23 | ||
24 | (If you want to install the Emacs binary, type "make install" instead | |
25 | of "make" in the last command.) | |
26 | ||
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27 | Occasionally the file "lisp/loaddefs.el" (and similar automatically |
28 | generated files, such as esh-groups.el, and *-loaddefs.el in some | |
29 | subdirectories of lisp/, e.g. mh-e/ and calendar/) will need to be | |
30 | updated to reflect new autoloaded functions. If you see errors (rather | |
31 | than warnings) about undefined lisp functions during compilation, that | |
32 | may be the reason. Another symptom may be an error saying that | |
33 | "loaddefs.el" could not be found; this is due to a change in the way | |
34 | loaddefs.el was handled in CVS, and should only happen once, for users | |
35 | that are updating old CVS trees. Finally, sometimes there can be build | |
36 | failures related to *loaddefs.el (e.g. "required feature `esh-groups' | |
37 | was not provided"). In that case, follow the instructions below. | |
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38 | |
39 | To update loaddefs.el (and similar files), do: | |
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40 | |
41 | $ cd lisp | |
8871e7f5 | 42 | $ make autogen-clean |
e2401940 | 43 | $ make autoloads |
93e3e16a | 44 | |
10209171 | 45 | If either of the above partial procedures fails, try "make bootstrap". |
e0156c8d | 46 | |
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47 | Very occasionally changes in the source can introduce |
48 | incompatibilities with previous builds. If a bootstrap fails, as a | |
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49 | last resort try "make maintainer-clean" before configuring and |
50 | bootstrapping again. If CPU time is not an issue, the most thorough | |
51 | way to rebuild, and avoid any spurious problems, is always to use this | |
52 | method. | |
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54 | Users of non-Posix systems (MS-Windows etc.) should run the |
55 | platform-specific configuration scripts (nt/configure.bat, config.bat, | |
56 | etc.) before "make bootstrap" or "make"; the rest of the procedure is | |
e2401940 | 57 | applicable to those systems as well. |
e0156c8d | 58 | |
7df58a0d | 59 | Questions, requests, and bug reports about the CVS versions of Emacs |
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60 | should be sent to emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org rather than gnu.emacs.help |
61 | or gnu.emacs.bug. Ideally, use M-x report-emacs-bug RET which will | |
62 | send it to the proper place. | |
58ec79cf | 63 | |
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64 | Because the CVS version of Emacs is a work in progress, it will |
65 | sometimes fail to build. Please wait a day or so (and check the bug | |
66 | and development mailing list archives) before reporting such problems. | |
67 | In most cases, the problem is known about and is just waiting for | |
68 | someone to fix it. | |
69 | ||
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25dc5de2 | 71 | Note on using SSH to access the CVS repository from inside Emacs |
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72 | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
73 | ||
74 | Write access to the CVS repository requires using SSH v2. | |
75 | ||
25dc5de2 | 76 | If you execute cvs commands inside Emacs, specifically if you use |
58ec79cf | 77 | pcl-cvs, output from CVS may be lost due to a problem in the |
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78 | interface between ssh, cvs, and libc. Corrupted checkins are |
79 | also known to have happened. | |
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80 | |
81 | To fix the problem, save the following script into a file, make it | |
82 | executable, and set CVS_RSH to the file name of the script: | |
83 | ||
84 | #!/bin/bash | |
85 | exec 2> >(exec cat >&2 2>/dev/null) | |
86 | exec ssh "$@" | |
87 | ||
88 | This may be combined with the following entry in ~/.ssh/config to | |
89 | simplify accessing the CVS repository: | |
90 | ||
91 | Host subversions.gnu.org | |
92 | Protocol 2 | |
93 | ForwardX11 no | |
94 | User YOUR_USERID | |
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95 | |
96 | \f | |
97 | This file is part of GNU Emacs. | |
98 | ||
b33ba812 | 99 | GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify |
7f6d64f8 | 100 | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
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101 | the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or |
102 | (at your option) any later version. | |
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103 | |
104 | GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
105 | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
106 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | |
107 | GNU General Public License for more details. | |
108 | ||
109 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | |
b33ba812 | 110 | along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. |