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 If the above procedure fails, try "make bootstrap".
30 Users of non-Posix systems (MS-Windows etc.) should run the
31 platform-specific configuration scripts (nt/configure.bat, config.bat,
32 etc.) before "make bootstrap" or "make"; the rest of the procedure is
33 applicable to those systems as well.
35 Note that "make bootstrap" overwrites some files that are under CVS
36 control, such as lisp/loaddefs.el. This could produce CVS conflicts
37 next time that you resync with the CVS. If you see such conflicts,
38 overwrite your local copy of the file with the clean version from the
39 CVS repository. For example:
41 cvs update -C lisp/loaddefs.el
43 Please report any bugs in the CVS versions to emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org.