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1 Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
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2 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3 See the end of the file for license conditions.
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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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9 byte-compiled Lisp files, are not stored in the CVS repository.
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10 Therefore, to build from CVS you must run "make bootstrap"
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11 instead of just "make":
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13 $ cvs update -dP
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14 $ make bootstrap
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16 Of course, if this is the first time you go through it, you'll need to do
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17 ./configure before the "make bootstrap".
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19 Normally, it is not necessary to use "make bootstrap" after every CVS
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20 update. "make" should work in 90% of the cases and be much quicker.
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22 $ make
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24 (If you want to install the Emacs binary, type "make install" instead
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25 of "make" in the last command.)
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27 Occasionally the file "lisp/loaddefs.el" (and similar automatically
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28 generated files, such as esh-groups.el, and *-loaddefs.el in some
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29 subdirectories of lisp/, e.g. mh-e/ and calendar/) will need to be
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30 updated to reflect new autoloaded functions. If you see errors (rather
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31 than warnings) about undefined lisp functions during compilation, that
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33 "loaddefs.el" could not be found; this is due to a change in the way
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34 loaddefs.el was handled in CVS, and should only happen once, for users
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35 that are updating old CVS trees. Finally, sometimes there can be build
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36 failures related to *loaddefs.el (e.g. "required feature `esh-groups'
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37 was not provided"). In that case, follow the instructions below.
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39 To update loaddefs.el (and similar files), do:
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41 $ cd lisp
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42 $ make autogen-clean
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43 $ make autoloads
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45 If either of the above partial procedures fails, try "make bootstrap".
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47 Very occasionally changes in the source can introduce
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48 incompatibilities with previous builds. If a bootstrap fails, as a
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49 last resort try "make maintainer-clean" before configuring and
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50 bootstrapping again. If CPU time is not an issue, the most thorough
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51 way to rebuild, and avoid any spurious problems, is always to use this
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52 method.
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54 Users of non-Posix systems (MS-Windows etc.) should run the
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55 platform-specific configuration scripts (nt/configure.bat, config.bat,
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56 etc.) before "make bootstrap" or "make"; the rest of the procedure is
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57 applicable to those systems as well.
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59 Questions, requests, and bug reports about the CVS versions of Emacs
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60 should be sent to emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org rather than gnu.emacs.help
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61 or gnu.emacs.bug. Ideally, use M-x report-emacs-bug RET which will
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62 send it to the proper place.
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64 Because the CVS version of Emacs is a work in progress, it will
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65 sometimes fail to build. Please wait a day or so (and check the bug
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66 and development mailing list archives) before reporting such problems.
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67 In most cases, the problem is known about and is just waiting for
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68 someone to fix it.
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71 Note on using SSH to access the CVS repository from inside Emacs
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72 ----------------------------------------------------------------
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74 Write access to the CVS repository requires using SSH v2.
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76 If you execute cvs commands inside Emacs, specifically if you use
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77 pcl-cvs, output from CVS may be lost due to a problem in the
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78 interface between ssh, cvs, and libc. Corrupted checkins are
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79 also known to have happened.
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81 To fix the problem, save the following script into a file, make it
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82 executable, and set CVS_RSH to the file name of the script:
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84 #!/bin/bash
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85 exec 2> >(exec cat >&2 2>/dev/null)
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86 exec ssh "$@"
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88 This may be combined with the following entry in ~/.ssh/config to
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89 simplify accessing the CVS repository:
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91 Host subversions.gnu.org
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92 Protocol 2
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93 ForwardX11 no
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94 User YOUR_USERID
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97 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
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99 GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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100 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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101 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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102 (at your option) any later version.
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104 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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105 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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106 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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107 GNU General Public License for more details.
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109 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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110 along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.