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author | Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@auburn.edu> |
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date | Fri, 16 Jan 2004 00:43:54 +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 reflect |
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29 new autoloaded functions. If you see errors about undefined lisp |
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30 functions during compilation, that may be the reason. Another symptom |
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31 may be an error saying that "loaddefs.el" could not be found; this is |
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32 due to a change in the way loaddefs.el was handled in CVS, and should |
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33 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 above 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. |
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47 Questions, requests, and bug reports about the CVS versions of Emacs |
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48 should be sent to emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org rather than gnu.emacs.help |
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49 or gnu.emacs.bug. Ideally, use M-x report-emacs-bug RET which will |
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50 send it to the proper place. |