(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:
+Occasionally the file "lisp/loaddefs.el" (and similar *-loaddefs.el
+files in some subdirectories of lisp/, e.g. mh-e/ and calendar/) will
+need to be updated to reflect new autoloaded functions. If you see
+errors (rather than warnings) 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. Finally, sometimes
+there can be build failures related to *loaddefs.el. In that case,
+delete them before following the instructions below to update them.
+
+To update loaddefs.el (and similar files), do:
$ cd lisp
$ make autoloads EMACS=../src/emacs
If either of the above partial procedures fails, try "make bootstrap".
+Very occasionally changes in the source can introduce
+incompatibilities with previous builds. If a bootstrap fails, as a
+last resort try "make maintainer-clean" before bootstrapping again.
+If CPU time is not an issue, the most thorough way to rebuild, and
+avoid any spurious problems, is always to use "make maintainer-clean;
+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
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