Building and Installing Emacs from Bazaar
-If this is the first time you go through it, you'll need to configure
-before bootstrapping:
+Building Emacs from Bazaar requires some tools that are not needed
+when building from a release. You will need:
- $ ./configure
+autoconf - at least the version specified near the start of
+ configure.in (in the AC_PREREQ command).
+automake - we recommend at least version 1.11.
+makeinfo - not strictly necessary, but highly recommended, so that
+ you can build the manuals.
+
+The `autogen.sh' script can help you figure out if you have the
+necessary tools.
+
+The first time you build, there are a couple of extra steps.
+First, generate the `configure' script and some related files:
+
+ $ ./autogen.sh
-(Note that normally there is no need to run `autoconf' etc. If you
-need it, the relevant command is `autoreconf -I m4'. Be aware that
-this will likely lead to conflicts next time you update from Bazaar.)
+(or you can just run `autoreconf -i -I m4').
+
+You can then configure your build (use `./configure --help' to see
+options you can set):
+
+ $ ./configure
Some of the files that are included in the Emacs tarball, such as
byte-compiled Lisp files, are not stored in Bazaar. Therefore, to