X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/gnu-emacs/blobdiff_plain/cda62d166b91e203451aa038f791ee9d4503791a..91b7e4a6fdd600278a3dd3fd5a7962ef0c2a9b72:/INSTALL.CVS diff --git a/INSTALL.CVS b/INSTALL.CVS index 94025678ac..ce3fa9f262 100644 --- a/INSTALL.CVS +++ b/INSTALL.CVS @@ -25,24 +25,26 @@ procedure: (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" 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. To update loaddefs.el, do: $ cd lisp $ make autoloads EMACS=../src/emacs -If either of above procedures fails, try "make bootstrap". +If either of the above partial procedures fails, try "make bootstrap". 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. +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. 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