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6 Building and Installing Emacs from CVS |
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8 Some of the files that are included in the Emacs tarball, such as |
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10 Therefore, to build from CVS you must run "make bootstrap" |
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16 The bootstrap process makes sure all necessary files are rebuilt |
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19 Normally, it is not necessary to use "make bootstrap" after every CVS |
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31 (If you want to install the Emacs binary, type "make install" instead |
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55 Questions, requests, and bug reports about the CVS versions of Emacs |
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