X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/gnu-emacs/blobdiff_plain/ac3d262560b0182146962f183d32725602d82f3c..97c9858753082f553e59c294fcc1d5fffa61ffa2:/INSTALL.CVS diff --git a/INSTALL.CVS b/INSTALL.CVS index 27e035146b..97da65af71 100644 --- a/INSTALL.CVS +++ b/INSTALL.CVS @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 + Free Software Foundation, Inc. +See the end of the file for license conditions. + + Building and Installing Emacs from CVS Some of the files that are included in the Emacs tarball, such as @@ -5,39 +10,46 @@ byte-compiled Lisp files, are not stored in the CVS repository. Therefore, to build from CVS you must run "make bootstrap" instead of just "make": - $ ./configure + $ cvs update -dP $ make bootstrap -The bootstrap process makes sure all necessary files are rebuilt -before it builds the final Emacs binary. +Of course, if this is the first time you go through it, you'll need to do +./configure before the "make bootstrap". Normally, it is not necessary to use "make bootstrap" after every CVS -update. Unless there are problems, we suggest the following -procedure: +update. "make" should work in 90% of the cases and be much quicker. - $ ./configure - $ make - $ cd lisp - $ make recompile EMACS=../src/emacs - $ cd .. $ make (If you want to install the Emacs binary, type "make install" instead of "make" in the last command.) -Occasionally the file "lisp/loaddefs.el" will need be updated to reflect -new autoloaded functions. If you see errors about undefined lisp -functions during compilation, that may be the reason. Another symptom -may be an error saying that "loaddefs.el" could not be found; this is -due to a change in the way loaddefs.el was handled in CVS, and should -only happen once, for users that are updating old CVS trees. +Occasionally the file "lisp/loaddefs.el" (and similar automatically +generated files, such as esh-groups.el, and *-loaddefs.el in some +subdirectories of lisp/, e.g. mh-e/ and calendar/) will need to be +updated to reflect new autoloaded functions. If you see errors (rather +than warnings) about undefined lisp functions during compilation, that +may be the reason. Another symptom may be an error saying that +"loaddefs.el" could not be found; this is due to a change in the way +loaddefs.el was handled in CVS, and should only happen once, for users +that are updating old CVS trees. Finally, sometimes there can be build +failures related to *loaddefs.el (e.g. "required feature `esh-groups' +was not provided"). In that case, follow the instructions below. -To update loaddefs.el, do: +To update loaddefs.el (and similar files), do: $ cd lisp - $ make autoloads EMACS=../src/emacs + $ make autogen-clean + $ make autoloads + +If either of the above partial procedures fails, try "make bootstrap". -If either of above procedures fails, try "make bootstrap". +Very occasionally changes in the source can introduce +incompatibilities with previous builds. If a bootstrap fails, as a +last resort try "make maintainer-clean" before configuring and +bootstrapping again. If CPU time is not an issue, the most thorough +way to rebuild, and avoid any spurious problems, is always to use this +method. Users of non-Posix systems (MS-Windows etc.) should run the platform-specific configuration scripts (nt/configure.bat, config.bat, @@ -50,15 +62,15 @@ or gnu.emacs.bug. Ideally, use M-x report-emacs-bug RET which will send it to the proper place. -Note on using SSH to access the CVS repository from inside emacs +Note on using SSH to access the CVS repository from inside Emacs ---------------------------------------------------------------- Write access to the CVS repository requires using SSH v2. -If you execute cvs commands inside emacs, specifically if you use +If you execute cvs commands inside Emacs, specifically if you use pcl-cvs, output from CVS may be lost due to a problem in the -interface between ssh, cvs, and emacs. Corrupted checkins are -also been reported to have happened. +interface between ssh, cvs, and libc. Corrupted checkins are +also known to have happened. To fix the problem, save the following script into a file, make it executable, and set CVS_RSH to the file name of the script: @@ -74,3 +86,19 @@ Host subversions.gnu.org Protocol 2 ForwardX11 no User YOUR_USERID + + +This file is part of GNU Emacs. + +GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify +it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by +the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or +(at your option) any later version. + +GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the +GNU General Public License for more details. + +You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License +along with GNU Emacs. If not, see .