necessary tools.
The first time you build, there are a couple of extra steps.
-First, generate the `configure' script:
+First, generate the `configure' script and some related files:
$ ./autogen.sh
applicable to those systems as well.
Because the Bazaar 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.
+sometimes fail to build. Please wait a day or so (and check the
+archives of the emacs-buildstatus, emacs-devel, and bug-gnu-emacs
+mailing lists) before reporting such problems. In most cases, the
+problem is known about and is just waiting for someone to fix it.
+This is especially true for Lisp compilation errors, which are almost
+never platform-specific.
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