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5 Building and Installing Emacs from Bazaar
7 If this is the first time you go through it, you'll need to configure
12 Some of the files that are included in the Emacs tarball, such as
13 byte-compiled Lisp files, are not stored in Bazaar. Therefore, to
14 build from Bazaar you must run "make bootstrap" instead of just "make":
19 Normally, it is not necessary to use "make bootstrap" after every
20 update from Bazaar. "make" should work in 90% of the cases and be
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" (and similar automatically
29 generated files, such as esh-groups.el, and *-loaddefs.el in some
30 subdirectories of lisp/, e.g. mh-e/ and calendar/) will need to be
31 updated to reflect new autoloaded functions. If you see errors (rather
32 than warnings) about undefined lisp functions during compilation, that
33 may be the reason. Finally, sometimes there can be build failures
34 related to *loaddefs.el (e.g. "required feature `esh-groups' was not
35 provided"). In that case, follow the instructions below.
37 To update loaddefs.el (and similar files), do:
42 If either of the above partial procedures fails, try "make bootstrap".
43 If CPU time is not an issue, the most thorough way to rebuild, and
44 avoid any spurious problems, is always to use this method.
46 Users of non-Posix systems (MS-Windows etc.) should run the
47 platform-specific configuration scripts (nt/configure.bat, config.bat,
48 etc.) before "make bootstrap" or "make"; the rest of the procedure is
49 applicable to those systems as well.
51 Because the Bazaar version of Emacs is a work in progress, it will
52 sometimes fail to build. Please wait a day or so (and check the bug
53 and development mailing list archives) before reporting such problems.
54 In most cases, the problem is known about and is just waiting for
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