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6 Building and Installing Emacs from Bazaar
8 If this is the first time you go through it, you'll need to configure
13 Some of the files that are included in the Emacs tarball, such as
14 byte-compiled Lisp files, are not stored in Bazaar. Therefore, to
15 build from Bazaar you must run "make bootstrap" instead of just "make":
20 Normally, it is not necessary to use "make bootstrap" after every
21 update from Bazaar. "make" should work in 90% of the cases and be
26 (If you want to install the Emacs binary, type "make install" instead
27 of "make" in the last command.)
29 Occasionally the file "lisp/loaddefs.el" (and similar automatically
30 generated files, such as esh-groups.el, and *-loaddefs.el in some
31 subdirectories of lisp/, e.g. mh-e/ and calendar/) will need to be
32 updated to reflect new autoloaded functions. If you see errors (rather
33 than warnings) about undefined lisp functions during compilation, that
34 may be the reason. Another symptom may be an error saying that
35 "loaddefs.el" could not be found; this is due to a change in the way
36 loaddefs.el was handled in version control, and should only happen
37 once, for users that are updating old sources. Finally, sometimes
38 there can be build failures related to *loaddefs.el (e.g. "required
39 feature `esh-groups' was not provided"). In that case, follow the
42 To update loaddefs.el (and similar files), do:
47 If either of the above partial procedures fails, try "make bootstrap".
48 If CPU time is not an issue, the most thorough way to rebuild, and
49 avoid any spurious problems, is always to use this method.
51 Users of non-Posix systems (MS-Windows etc.) should run the
52 platform-specific configuration scripts (nt/configure.bat, config.bat,
53 etc.) before "make bootstrap" or "make"; the rest of the procedure is
54 applicable to those systems as well.
56 Questions, requests, and bug reports about the Bazaar versions of Emacs
57 should be sent to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org rather than gnu.emacs.help.
58 Ideally, use M-x report-emacs-bug RET.
60 Because the Bazaar version of Emacs is a work in progress, it will
61 sometimes fail to build. Please wait a day or so (and check the bug
62 and development mailing list archives) before reporting such problems.
63 In most cases, the problem is known about and is just waiting for
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