X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/gnu-emacs/blobdiff_plain/b89a6b600b0f0acac4466bef69c9820b51574c4f..a96da3ab42a7f3854522a368b0e585d4d30cb72d:/INSTALL.CVS diff --git a/INSTALL.CVS b/INSTALL.CVS index 7e785fcac0..aee016f28d 100644 --- a/INSTALL.CVS +++ b/INSTALL.CVS @@ -1,62 +1,73 @@ -Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 +Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end of the file for license conditions. Building and Installing Emacs from CVS +If this is the first time you go through it, you'll need to configure +before bootstrapping: + + $ ./configure + Some of the files that are included in the Emacs tarball, such as 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. - Normally, it is not necessary to use "make bootstrap" after every CVS -update. Unless there are problems, we suggest using the following -alternative procedure after you have done "make bootstrap" at least -once: +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 autoloads If either of the above partial 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, etc.) before "make bootstrap" or "make"; the rest of the procedure is -applicable to those systems as well, except that the value of the -EMACS variable on the Make command line might be different, e.g., -../bin/emacs.exe or some such. +applicable to those systems as well. Questions, requests, and bug reports about the CVS versions of Emacs should be sent to emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org rather than gnu.emacs.help or gnu.emacs.bug. Ideally, use M-x report-emacs-bug RET which will send it to the proper place. +Because the CVS 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. + Note on using SSH to access the CVS repository from inside Emacs ---------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -86,10 +97,10 @@ Host subversions.gnu.org This file is part of GNU Emacs. -GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify +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 2, or (at your option) -any later version. +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 @@ -97,6 +108,4 @@ 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; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the -Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, -Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. +along with GNU Emacs. If not, see .