# HG changeset patch # User Glenn Morris # Date 1207725260 0 # Node ID b6020a64025db0a5f7b7f810e46b6624432c82f1 # Parent d44db694f2b34438fbc87f0c2d6280fd8bbb16a9 Improve previous change. diff -r d44db694f2b3 -r b6020a64025d INSTALL.CVS --- a/INSTALL.CVS Wed Apr 09 07:13:43 2008 +0000 +++ b/INSTALL.CVS Wed Apr 09 07:14:20 2008 +0000 @@ -31,27 +31,30 @@ (If you want to install the Emacs binary, type "make install" instead of "make" in the last command.) -Occasionally the file "lisp/loaddefs.el" will need to 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. +Occasionally the file "lisp/loaddefs.el" (and similar *-loaddefs.el +files 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. 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. Finally, sometimes +there can be build failures related to *loaddefs.el. In that case, +delete them before following the instructions below to update them. -To update loaddefs.el (and similar files in some subdirectories, eg -mh-e and calendar), do: +To update loaddefs.el (and similar files), do: $ cd lisp $ make autoloads EMACS=../src/emacs -(If a build fails with complaints related to a *loaddefs.el file, try -deleting any existing *loaddefs.el files and running the above command.) - If either of the above partial procedures fails, try "make bootstrap". Very occasionally changes in the source can introduce incompatibilities with previous builds. If a bootstrap fails, as a last resort try "make maintainer-clean" before bootstrapping again. +If CPU time is not an issue, the most thorough way to rebuild, and +avoid any spurious problems, is always to use "make maintainer-clean; +make bootstrap". Users of non-Posix systems (MS-Windows etc.) should run the platform-specific configuration scripts (nt/configure.bat, config.bat,