X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/gnu-emacs/blobdiff_plain/63696a737c9c28f203e1e4f8c73f8a765486543f..6c9b47ae84ee5e2f4c7e388d8b1b6fd67daeb61b:/INSTALL.BZR diff --git a/INSTALL.BZR b/INSTALL.BZR index 93229ec7a7..93e53fd09a 100644 --- a/INSTALL.BZR +++ b/INSTALL.BZR @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Copyright (C) 2002-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 2002-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end of the file for license conditions. @@ -28,6 +28,10 @@ options you can set): $ ./configure +If you want later builds to go faster, at the expense of sometimes +doing the wrong thing if you update the build procedure, you can +invoke "./configure -C --disable-maintainer-mode" instead. + Some of the files that are included in the Emacs tarball, such as byte-compiled Lisp files, are not stored in Bazaar. Therefore, to build from Bazaar you must run "make bootstrap" instead of just "make": @@ -68,10 +72,12 @@ etc.) before "make bootstrap" or "make"; the rest of the procedure is applicable to those systems as well. Because the Bazaar version of Emacs is a work in progress, it will -sometimes fail to build. Please wait a day or so (and check the bug -and development mailing list archives) before reporting such problems. -In most cases, the problem is known about and is just waiting for -someone to fix it. +sometimes fail to build. Please wait a day or so (and check the +archives of the emacs-buildstatus, emacs-devel, and bug-gnu-emacs +mailing lists) before reporting such problems. In most cases, the +problem is known about and is just waiting for someone to fix it. +This is especially true for Lisp compilation errors, which are almost +never platform-specific.