annotate INSTALL.CVS @ 69179:1a8aba2b127b

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author Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
date Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:12:51 +0000
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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
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4 byte-compiled Lisp files, are not stored in the CVS repository.
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5 Therefore, to build from CVS you must run "make bootstrap"
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6 instead of just "make":
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8 $ ./configure
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9 $ make bootstrap
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11 The bootstrap process makes sure all necessary files are rebuilt
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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
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15 update. Unless there are problems, we suggest the following
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16 procedure:
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18 $ ./configure
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19 $ make
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20 $ cd lisp
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21 $ make recompile EMACS=../src/emacs
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22 $ cd ..
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23 $ make
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25 (If you want to install the Emacs binary, type "make install" instead
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26 of "make" in the last command.)
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28 Occasionally the file "lisp/loaddefs.el" will need be updated to
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29 reflect new autoloaded functions. If you see errors about undefined
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30 lisp functions during compilation, that may be the reason. Another
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31 symptom may be an error saying that "loaddefs.el" could not be found;
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32 this is due to a change in the way loaddefs.el was handled in CVS, and
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33 should only happen once, for users that are updating old CVS trees.
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35 To update loaddefs.el, do:
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37 $ cd lisp
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38 $ make autoloads EMACS=../src/emacs
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40 If either of the above partial procedures fails, try "make bootstrap".
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42 Users of non-Posix systems (MS-Windows etc.) should run the
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43 platform-specific configuration scripts (nt/configure.bat, config.bat,
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44 etc.) before "make bootstrap" or "make"; the rest of the procedure is
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45 applicable to those systems as well, except that the value of the
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46 EMACS variable on the Make command line might be different, e.g.,
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47 ../bin/emacs.exe or some such.
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49 Questions, requests, and bug reports about the CVS versions of Emacs
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50 should be sent to emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org rather than gnu.emacs.help
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51 or gnu.emacs.bug. Ideally, use M-x report-emacs-bug RET which will
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52 send it to the proper place.
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55 Note on using SSH to access the CVS repository from inside Emacs
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56 ----------------------------------------------------------------
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58 Write access to the CVS repository requires using SSH v2.
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60 If you execute cvs commands inside Emacs, specifically if you use
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61 pcl-cvs, output from CVS may be lost due to a problem in the
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62 interface between ssh, cvs, and libc. Corrupted checkins have
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63 also been rumored to have happened.
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65 To fix the problem, save the following script into a file, make it
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66 executable, and set CVS_RSH to the file name of the script:
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68 #!/bin/bash
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69 exec 2> >(exec cat >&2 2>/dev/null)
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70 exec ssh "$@"
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72 This may be combined with the following entry in ~/.ssh/config to
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73 simplify accessing the CVS repository:
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75 Host subversions.gnu.org
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76 Protocol 2
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77 ForwardX11 no
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78 User YOUR_USERID