-Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
+Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end of the file for license conditions.
Therefore, to build from CVS you must run "make bootstrap"
instead of just "make":
- $ ./configure
+ $ cvs update -dP
$ make bootstrap
-The bootstrap process makes sure all necessary files are rebuilt
-before it builds the final Emacs binary.
+Of course, if this is the first time you go through it, you'll need to do
+./configure before the "make bootstrap".
Normally, it is not necessary to use "make bootstrap" after every CVS
-update. Unless there are problems, we suggest using the following
-alternative procedure after you have done "make bootstrap" at least
-once:
+update. "make" should work in 90% of the cases and be much quicker.
- $ ./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.
+Occasionally the file "lisp/loaddefs.el" (and similar automatically
+generated files, such as esh-groups.el, and *-loaddefs.el 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 (e.g. "required feature `esh-groups'
+was not provided"). In that case, follow the instructions below.
-To update loaddefs.el, do:
+To update loaddefs.el (and similar files), do:
$ cd lisp
- $ make autoloads EMACS=../src/emacs
+ $ make autogen-clean
+ $ make autoloads
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 configuring and
+bootstrapping again. If CPU time is not an issue, the most thorough
+way to rebuild, and avoid any spurious problems, is always to use this
+method.
+
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, except that the value of the
-EMACS variable on the Make command line might be different, e.g.,
-../bin/emacs.exe or some such.
+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.
+Because the CVS version of Emacs is a work in progress, it will
+sometimes fail to build. Please wait a day or so (and check the bug
+and development mailing list archives) before reporting such problems.
+In most cases, the problem is known about and is just waiting for
+someone to fix it.
+
Note on using SSH to access the CVS repository from inside Emacs
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