# HG changeset patch # User Miles Bader # Date 1064974187 0 # Node ID 7bea35b48a17b1608b07ce69ecd3b753d658fcb8 # Parent 8f70aecafdb55038028715651fb25889b93e7717 Revision: miles@gnu.org--gnu-2003/emacs--cvs-trunk--0--patch-69 Update INSTALL-CVS to reflect new loaddefs.el handling diff -r 8f70aecafdb5 -r 7bea35b48a17 INSTALL-CVS --- a/INSTALL-CVS Wed Oct 01 01:38:40 2003 +0000 +++ b/INSTALL-CVS Wed Oct 01 02:09:47 2003 +0000 @@ -25,21 +25,25 @@ (If you want to install the Emacs binary, type "make install" instead of "make" in the last command.) -If the above procedure fails, try "make bootstrap". +Occasionally the file "lisp/loaddefs.el" will need be updated to reflect +new autoloaded functions. If you see errors about undefined lisp +functions during compilation, that may be the reason. Another symptom +may be an error saying that "loaddefs.el" could not be found; this is +due to a change in the way loaddefs.el was handled in CVS, and should +only happen once, for users that are updating old CVS trees. + +To update loaddefs.el, do: + + $ cd lisp + $ make autoloads EMACS=../src/emacs + +If either of above procedures fails, try "make bootstrap". 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. -Note that "make bootstrap" overwrites some files that are under CVS -control, such as lisp/loaddefs.el. This could produce CVS conflicts -next time that you resync with the CVS. If you see such conflicts, -overwrite your local copy of the file with the clean version from the -CVS repository. For example: - - cvs update -C lisp/loaddefs.el - Questions, requests, and bug reports about the CVS versions of Emacs should be sent to emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org rather than gnu.emacs.help or gnu.emacs.bug. Ideally, use M-x report-emacs-bug RET which will