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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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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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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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55 Note on using SSH to access the CVS repository from inside Emacs |
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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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65 To fix the problem, save the following script into a file, make it |
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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 |