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1 | Building and Installing Emacs from CVS |
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| 3 | Some of the files that are included in the Emacs tarball, such as | |
| 4 | byte-compiled Lisp files, are not stored in the CVS repository. | |
| 5 | Therefore, to build from CVS you must run "make bootstrap" | |
| 6 | instead of just "make": | |
| 7 | ||
| 8 | $ ./configure | |
| 9 | $ make bootstrap | |
| 10 | ||
| 11 | The bootstrap process makes sure all necessary files are rebuilt | |
| 12 | before it builds the final Emacs binary. | |
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| 14 | Normally, it is not necessary to use "make bootstrap" after every CVS | |
| 15 | update. Unless there are problems, we suggest the following | |
| 16 | procedure: | |
| 17 | ||
| 18 | $ ./configure | |
| 19 | $ make | |
| 20 | $ cd lisp | |
| 21 | $ make recompile EMACS=../src/emacs | |
| 22 | $ cd .. | |
| 23 | $ make | |
| 24 | ||
| 25 | (If you want to install the Emacs binary, type "make install" instead | |
| 26 | of "make" in the last command.) | |
| 27 | ||
| 28 | If the above procedure fails, try "make bootstrap". | |
| 29 | ||
| 30 | Users of non-Posix systems (MS-Windows etc.) should run the | |
| 31 | platform-specific configuration scripts (nt/configure.bat, config.bat, | |
| 32 | etc.) before "make bootstrap" or "make"; the rest of the procedure is | |
| 33 | applicable to those systems as well. | |
| 34 | ||
| 35 | Note that "make bootstrap" overwrites some files that are under CVS | |
| 36 | control, such as lisp/loaddefs.el. This could produce CVS conflicts | |
| 37 | next time that you resync with the CVS. If you see such conflicts, | |
| 38 | overwrite your local copy of the file with the clean version from the | |
| 39 | CVS repository. For example: | |
| 40 | ||
| 41 | cvs update -C lisp/loaddefs.el | |
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| 43 | Please report any bugs in the CVS versions to emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org. |