X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/gnu-emacs/blobdiff_plain/6e5fa6bfce1362c2ebf049fcfa1e6f2a4762ccef..7a91562ff0ea0033add100295a52ded5a8be0d9b:/INSTALL.BZR diff --git a/INSTALL.BZR b/INSTALL.BZR index 3859e3cd4f..4b6797ebc9 100644 --- a/INSTALL.BZR +++ b/INSTALL.BZR @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Copyright (C) 2002-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 2002-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end of the file for license conditions. @@ -8,8 +8,9 @@ Building Emacs from Bazaar requires some tools that are not needed when building from a release. You will need: autoconf - at least the version specified near the start of - configure.in (in the AC_PREREQ command). -automake - we recommend at least version 1.11. + configure.ac (in the AC_PREREQ command). +automake - at least the version specified near the start of + configure.ac (in the AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE command). makeinfo - not strictly necessary, but highly recommended, so that you can build the manuals. @@ -17,17 +18,21 @@ The `autogen.sh' script can help you figure out if you have the necessary tools. The first time you build, there are a couple of extra steps. -First, generate the `configure' script: +First, generate the `configure' script and some related files: $ ./autogen.sh -(or you can just run `autoreconf -I m4'). +(or you can just run `autoreconf -i -I m4'). You can then configure your build (use `./configure --help' to see 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" 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 +73,12 @@ 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.