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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
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14 $ ./configure
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15 $ make bootstrap
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17 The bootstrap process makes sure all necessary files are rebuilt
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18 before it builds the final Emacs binary.
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20 If 'make bootstrap' fails, it may be necessary to do 'make maintainer-clean'
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21 followed by configure before trying it again. (Occasionally the loaddefs.el
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22 file gets into a bad state due to changes in the Lisp libraries; this procedure
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23 forces it to be regenerated.)
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25 If even 'make bootstrap' followed by 'make maintainer-clean' fails, it may
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26 be that some reorganization of the tree has created a new subdirectory. Try
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27 this:
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29 $ cvs update -d
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30 $ make maintainer-clean
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31 $ ./configure
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32 $ make bootstrap
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34 Normally, it is not necessary to use "make bootstrap" after every CVS
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35 update. Unless there are problems, we suggest using the following
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36 alternative procedure after you have done "make bootstrap" at least
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37 once:
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39 $ ./configure
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40 $ make
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41 $ cd lisp
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42 $ make recompile EMACS=../src/emacs
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43 $ cd ..
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44 $ make
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46 (If you want to install the Emacs binary, type "make install" instead
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47 of "make" in the last command.)
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49 Occasionally the file "lisp/loaddefs.el" (and similar *-loaddefs.el
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51 need to be updated to reflect new autoloaded functions. If you see
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53 compilation, that may be the reason. Another symptom may be an error
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55 in the way loaddefs.el was handled in CVS, and should only happen
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56 once, for users that are updating old CVS trees. Finally, sometimes
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57 there can be build failures related to *loaddefs.el. In that case,
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58 delete them before following the instructions below to update them.
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60 To update loaddefs.el (and similar files), do:
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62 $ cd lisp
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63 $ make autoloads EMACS=../src/emacs
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65 If either of the above partial procedures fails, try "make bootstrap".
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67 Very occasionally changes in the source can introduce
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68 incompatibilities with previous builds. If a bootstrap fails, as a
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69 last resort try "make maintainer-clean" before configuring and
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70 bootstrapping again. If CPU time is not an issue, the most thorough
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71 way to rebuild, and avoid any spurious problems, is always to use this
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72 method.
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74 Users of non-Posix systems (MS-Windows etc.) should run the
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75 platform-specific configuration scripts (nt/configure.bat, config.bat,
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77 applicable to those systems as well, except that the value of the
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78 EMACS variable on the Make command line might be different, e.g.,
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79 ../bin/emacs.exe or some such.
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81 Questions, requests, and bug reports about the CVS versions of Emacs
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82 should be sent to emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org rather than gnu.emacs.help
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83 or gnu.emacs.bug. Ideally, use M-x report-emacs-bug RET which will
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84 send it to the proper place.
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87 Note on using SSH to access the CVS repository from inside Emacs
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88 ----------------------------------------------------------------
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90 Write access to the CVS repository requires using SSH v2.
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92 If you execute cvs commands inside Emacs, specifically if you use
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93 pcl-cvs, output from CVS may be lost due to a problem in the
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94 interface between ssh, cvs, and libc. Corrupted checkins are
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95 also known to have happened.
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97 To fix the problem, save the following script into a file, make it
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98 executable, and set CVS_RSH to the file name of the script:
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100 #!/bin/bash
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101 exec 2> >(exec cat >&2 2>/dev/null)
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102 exec ssh "$@"
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104 This may be combined with the following entry in ~/.ssh/config to
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105 simplify accessing the CVS repository:
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107 Host subversions.gnu.org
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108 Protocol 2
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109 ForwardX11 no
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110 User YOUR_USERID
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113 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
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115 GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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116 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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117 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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118 (at your option) any later version.
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120 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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121 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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122 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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123 GNU General Public License for more details.
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125 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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126 along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.