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diff INSTALL.BZR @ 111811:ced73eea562f
Restore files that I seem to have mistakenly deleted.
author | Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> |
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date | Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:45:09 +0000 |
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--- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/INSTALL.BZR Fri Dec 03 14:45:09 2010 +0000 @@ -0,0 +1,73 @@ +Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 + Free Software Foundation, Inc. +See the end of the file for license conditions. + + + Building and Installing Emacs from Bazaar + +If this is the first time you go through it, you'll need to configure +before bootstrapping: + + $ ./configure + +Some of the files that are included in the Emacs tarball, such as +byte-compiled Lisp files, are not stored in Bazaar. Therefore, to +build from Bazaar you must run "make bootstrap" instead of just "make": + + $ bzr pull + $ make bootstrap + +Normally, it is not necessary to use "make bootstrap" after every +update from Bazaar. "make" should work in 90% of the cases and be +much quicker. + + $ make + +(If you want to install the Emacs binary, type "make install" instead +of "make" in the last command.) + +Occasionally the file "lisp/loaddefs.el" (and similar automatically +generated files, such as esh-groups.el, and *-loaddefs.el in some +subdirectories of lisp/, e.g. mh-e/ and calendar/) will need to be +updated to reflect new autoloaded functions. If you see errors (rather +than warnings) about undefined lisp functions during compilation, that +may be the reason. Finally, sometimes there can be build failures +related to *loaddefs.el (e.g. "required feature `esh-groups' was not +provided"). In that case, follow the instructions below. + +To update loaddefs.el (and similar files), do: + + $ cd lisp + $ make autoloads + +If either of the above partial procedures fails, try "make bootstrap". +If CPU time is not an issue, the most thorough way to rebuild, and +avoid any spurious problems, is always to use this method. + +Users of non-Posix systems (MS-Windows etc.) should run the +platform-specific configuration scripts (nt/configure.bat, config.bat, +etc.) before "make bootstrap" or "make"; the rest of the procedure is +applicable to those systems as well. + +Because the Bazaar version of Emacs is a work in progress, it will +sometimes fail to build. Please wait a day or so (and check the bug +and development mailing list archives) before reporting such problems. +In most cases, the problem is known about and is just waiting for +someone to fix it. + + + +This file is part of GNU Emacs. + +GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify +it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by +the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or +(at your option) any later version. + +GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the +GNU General Public License for more details. + +You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License +along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.