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95df8112 | 1 | Copyright (C) 2002-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
7f6d64f8 | 2 | See the end of the file for license conditions. |
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8bb25908 | 5 | Building and Installing Emacs from Bazaar |
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7 | Building Emacs from Bazaar requires some tools that are not needed |
8 | when building from a release. You will need: | |
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10 | autoconf - at least the version specified near the start of |
11 | configure.in (in the AC_PREREQ command). | |
12 | automake - we recommend at least version 1.11. | |
13 | makeinfo - not strictly necessary, but highly recommended, so that | |
14 | you can build the manuals. | |
15 | ||
16 | The `autogen.sh' script can help you figure out if you have the | |
17 | necessary tools. | |
18 | ||
19 | The first time you build, there are a couple of extra steps. | |
ac45a338 | 20 | First, generate the `configure' script and some related files: |
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21 | |
22 | $ ./autogen.sh | |
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f6ca84c0 | 24 | (or you can just run `autoreconf -i -I m4'). |
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25 | |
26 | You can then configure your build (use `./configure --help' to see | |
27 | options you can set): | |
28 | ||
29 | $ ./configure | |
d05e7e67 | 30 | |
e0156c8d | 31 | Some of the files that are included in the Emacs tarball, such as |
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32 | byte-compiled Lisp files, are not stored in Bazaar. Therefore, to |
33 | build from Bazaar you must run "make bootstrap" instead of just "make": | |
e0156c8d | 34 | |
90412b21 | 35 | $ bzr pull |
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36 | $ make bootstrap |
37 | ||
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38 | Normally, it is not necessary to use "make bootstrap" after every |
39 | update from Bazaar. "make" should work in 90% of the cases and be | |
40 | much quicker. | |
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42 | $ make |
43 | ||
44 | (If you want to install the Emacs binary, type "make install" instead | |
45 | of "make" in the last command.) | |
46 | ||
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47 | Occasionally the file "lisp/loaddefs.el" (and similar automatically |
48 | generated files, such as esh-groups.el, and *-loaddefs.el in some | |
49 | subdirectories of lisp/, e.g. mh-e/ and calendar/) will need to be | |
50 | updated to reflect new autoloaded functions. If you see errors (rather | |
51 | than warnings) about undefined lisp functions during compilation, that | |
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52 | may be the reason. Finally, sometimes there can be build failures |
53 | related to *loaddefs.el (e.g. "required feature `esh-groups' was not | |
54 | provided"). In that case, follow the instructions below. | |
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55 | |
56 | To update loaddefs.el (and similar files), do: | |
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57 | |
58 | $ cd lisp | |
e2401940 | 59 | $ make autoloads |
93e3e16a | 60 | |
10209171 | 61 | If either of the above partial procedures fails, try "make bootstrap". |
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62 | If CPU time is not an issue, the most thorough way to rebuild, and |
63 | avoid any spurious problems, is always to use this method. | |
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65 | Users of non-Posix systems (MS-Windows etc.) should run the |
66 | platform-specific configuration scripts (nt/configure.bat, config.bat, | |
67 | etc.) before "make bootstrap" or "make"; the rest of the procedure is | |
e2401940 | 68 | applicable to those systems as well. |
e0156c8d | 69 | |
8bb25908 | 70 | Because the Bazaar version of Emacs is a work in progress, it will |
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71 | sometimes fail to build. Please wait a day or so (and check the |
72 | archives of the emacs-buildstatus, emacs-devel, and bug-gnu-emacs | |
73 | mailing lists) before reporting such problems. In most cases, the | |
74 | problem is known about and is just waiting for someone to fix it. | |
75 | This is especially true for Lisp compilation errors, which are almost | |
76 | never platform-specific. | |
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79 | \f |
80 | This file is part of GNU Emacs. | |
81 | ||
b33ba812 | 82 | GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify |
7f6d64f8 | 83 | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
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84 | the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or |
85 | (at your option) any later version. | |
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86 | |
87 | GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
88 | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
89 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | |
90 | GNU General Public License for more details. | |
91 | ||
92 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | |
b33ba812 | 93 | along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. |