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 files "lisp/loaddefs.el" or lisp/mh-e/mh-loaddefs.el
29 will need be updated to reflect new autoloaded functions. If you see
30 errors about undefined lisp functions during compilation, that may be
31 the reason. Another symptom may be an error saying that "loaddefs.el"
32 could not be found; this is due to a change in the way loaddefs.el was
33 handled in CVS, and should only happen once, for users that are
34 updating old CVS trees.
36 To update loaddefs.el and mh-loaddefs.el, do:
39 $ make autoloads mh-autoloads EMACS=../src/emacs
41 If either of the above partial procedures fails, try "make bootstrap".
43 Users of non-Posix systems (MS-Windows etc.) should run the
44 platform-specific configuration scripts (nt/configure.bat, config.bat,
45 etc.) before "make bootstrap" or "make"; the rest of the procedure is
46 applicable to those systems as well, except that the value of the
47 EMACS variable on the Make command line might be different, e.g.,
48 ../bin/emacs.exe or some such.
50 Questions, requests, and bug reports about the CVS versions of Emacs
51 should be sent to emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org rather than gnu.emacs.help
52 or gnu.emacs.bug. Ideally, use M-x report-emacs-bug RET which will
53 send it to the proper place.
56 Note on using SSH to access the CVS repository from inside Emacs
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59 Write access to the CVS repository requires using SSH v2.
61 If you execute cvs commands inside Emacs, specifically if you use
62 pcl-cvs, output from CVS may be lost due to a problem in the
63 interface between ssh, cvs, and libc. Corrupted checkins have
64 also been rumored to have happened.
66 To fix the problem, save the following script into a file, make it
67 executable, and set CVS_RSH to the file name of the script:
70 exec 2> >(exec cat >&2 2>/dev/null)
73 This may be combined with the following entry in ~/.ssh/config to
74 simplify accessing the CVS repository:
76 Host subversions.gnu.org