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2 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 See the end of the file for license conditions.
6 Building and Installing Emacs from CVS
8 Some of the files that are included in the Emacs tarball, such as
9 byte-compiled Lisp files, are not stored in the CVS repository.
10 Therefore, to build from CVS you must run "make bootstrap"
11 instead of just "make":
16 The bootstrap process makes sure all necessary files are rebuilt
17 before it builds the final Emacs binary.
19 Normally, it is not necessary to use "make bootstrap" after every CVS
20 update. Unless there are problems, we suggest using the following
21 alternative procedure after you have done "make bootstrap" at least
27 $ make recompile EMACS=../src/emacs
31 (If you want to install the Emacs binary, type "make install" instead
32 of "make" in the last command.)
34 Occasionally the file "lisp/loaddefs.el" will need be updated to
35 reflect new autoloaded functions. If you see errors about undefined
36 lisp functions during compilation, that may be the reason. Another
37 symptom may be an error saying that "loaddefs.el" could not be found;
38 this is due to a change in the way loaddefs.el was handled in CVS, and
39 should only happen once, for users that are updating old CVS trees.
41 To update loaddefs.el, do:
44 $ make autoloads EMACS=../src/emacs
46 If either of the above partial procedures fails, try "make bootstrap".
48 Users of non-Posix systems (MS-Windows etc.) should run the
49 platform-specific configuration scripts (nt/configure.bat, config.bat,
50 etc.) before "make bootstrap" or "make"; the rest of the procedure is
51 applicable to those systems as well, except that the value of the
52 EMACS variable on the Make command line might be different, e.g.,
53 ../bin/emacs.exe or some such.
55 Questions, requests, and bug reports about the CVS versions of Emacs
56 should be sent to emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org rather than gnu.emacs.help
57 or gnu.emacs.bug. Ideally, use M-x report-emacs-bug RET which will
58 send it to the proper place.
61 Note on using SSH to access the CVS repository from inside Emacs
62 ----------------------------------------------------------------
64 Write access to the CVS repository requires using SSH v2.
66 If you execute cvs commands inside Emacs, specifically if you use
67 pcl-cvs, output from CVS may be lost due to a problem in the
68 interface between ssh, cvs, and libc. Corrupted checkins are
69 also known to have happened.
71 To fix the problem, save the following script into a file, make it
72 executable, and set CVS_RSH to the file name of the script:
75 exec 2> >(exec cat >&2 2>/dev/null)
78 This may be combined with the following entry in ~/.ssh/config to
79 simplify accessing the CVS repository:
81 Host subversions.gnu.org
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