+Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
+ Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+See the end of the file for license conditions.
+
+
Building and Installing Emacs from CVS
Some of the files that are included in the Emacs tarball, such as
The bootstrap process makes sure all necessary files are rebuilt
before it builds the final Emacs binary.
+If 'make bootstrap' fails, it may be necessary to do 'make maintainer-clean'
+followed by configure before trying it again. (Occasionally the loaddefs.el
+file gets into a bad state due to changes in the Lisp libraries; this procedure
+forces it to be regenerated.)
+
Normally, it is not necessary to use "make bootstrap" after every CVS
-update. Unless there are problems, we suggest the following
-procedure:
+update. Unless there are problems, we suggest using the following
+alternative procedure after you have done "make bootstrap" at least
+once:
$ ./configure
$ 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 *-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, do:
+To update loaddefs.el (and similar files), do:
$ cd lisp
$ make autoloads EMACS=../src/emacs
-If either of above procedures fails, try "make bootstrap".
+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.
+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.
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
If you execute cvs commands inside Emacs, specifically if you use
pcl-cvs, output from CVS may be lost due to a problem in the
-interface between ssh, cvs, and libc. Corrupted checkins have
-also been rumored to have happened.
+interface between ssh, cvs, and libc. Corrupted checkins are
+also known to have happened.
To fix the problem, save the following script into a file, make it
executable, and set CVS_RSH to the file name of the script:
Protocol 2
ForwardX11 no
User YOUR_USERID
+
+\f
+This file is part of GNU Emacs.
+
+GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option)
+any later version.
+
+GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the
+Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
+Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
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