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Building and Installing Emacs from CVS | ||
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Some of the files that are included in the Emacs tarball, such as | ||
byte-compiled Lisp files, are not stored in the CVS repository. | ||
Therefore, to build from CVS you must run "make bootstrap" | ||
instead of just "make": | ||
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$ ./configure | ||
$ make bootstrap | ||
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The bootstrap process makes sure all necessary files are rebuilt | ||
before it builds the final Emacs binary. | ||
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Normally, it is not necessary to use "make bootstrap" after every CVS | ||
update. Unless there are problems, we suggest the following | ||
procedure: | ||
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$ ./configure | ||
$ make | ||
$ cd lisp | ||
$ make recompile EMACS=../src/emacs | ||
$ cd .. | ||
$ make | ||
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(If you want to install the Emacs binary, type "make install" instead | ||
of "make" in the last command.) | ||
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If the above procedure fails, try "make bootstrap". | ||
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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. | ||
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Note that "make bootstrap" overwrites some files that are under CVS | ||
control, such as lisp/loaddefs.el. This could produce CVS conflicts | ||
next time that you resync with the CVS. If you see such conflicts, | ||
overwrite your local copy of the file with the clean version from the | ||
CVS repository. For example: | ||
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cvs update -C lisp/loaddefs.el | ||
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Please report any bugs in the CVS versions to emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org. |