1 Building and Installing Emacs from CVS
3 Some of the files that are included in the Emacs tarball, such as
4 byte-compiled Lisp files, are not stored in the CVS repository.
5 Therefore, to build from CVS you must run "make bootstrap"
6 instead of just "make":
11 The bootstrap process makes sure all necessary files are rebuilt
12 before it builds the final Emacs binary.
14 Normally, it is not necessary to use "make bootstrap" after every CVS
15 update. Unless there are problems, we suggest the following
21 $ make recompile EMACS=../src/emacs
25 (If you want to install the Emacs binary, type "make install" instead
26 of "make" in the last command.)
28 Occasionally the file "lisp/loaddefs.el" will need be updated to reflect
29 new autoloaded functions. If you see errors about undefined lisp
30 functions during compilation, that may be the reason. Another symptom
31 may be an error saying that "loaddefs.el" could not be found; this is
32 due to a change in the way loaddefs.el was handled in CVS, and should
33 only happen once, for users that are updating old CVS trees.
35 To update loaddefs.el, do:
38 $ make autoloads EMACS=../src/emacs
40 If either of above procedures fails, try "make bootstrap".
42 Users of non-Posix systems (MS-Windows etc.) should run the
43 platform-specific configuration scripts (nt/configure.bat, config.bat,
44 etc.) before "make bootstrap" or "make"; the rest of the procedure is
45 applicable to those systems as well.
47 Questions, requests, and bug reports about the CVS versions of Emacs
48 should be sent to emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org rather than gnu.emacs.help
49 or gnu.emacs.bug. Ideally, use M-x report-emacs-bug RET which will
50 send it to the proper place.
53 Note on using SSH to access the CVS repository from inside emacs
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56 Write access to the CVS repository requires using SSH v2.
58 If you execute cvs commands inside emacs, specifically if you use
59 pcl-cvs, output from CVS may be lost due to a problem in the
60 interface between ssh, cvs, and emacs. Corrupted checkins are
61 also been reported to have happened.
63 To fix the problem, save the following script into a file, make it
64 executable, and set CVS_RSH to the file name of the script:
67 exec 2> >(exec cat >&2 2>/dev/null)
70 This may be combined with the following entry in ~/.ssh/config to
71 simplify accessing the CVS repository:
73 Host subversions.gnu.org