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Building and Installing Emacs from CVS
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Some of the files that are included in the Emacs tarball, such as
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byte-compiled Lisp files, are not stored in the CVS repository.
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Therefore, to build from CVS you must run "make bootstrap"
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instead of just "make":
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$ ./configure
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$ make bootstrap
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The bootstrap process makes sure all necessary files are rebuilt
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before it builds the final Emacs binary.
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Normally, it is not necessary to use "make bootstrap" after every CVS
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update. Unless there are problems, we suggest using the following
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alternative procedure after you have done "make bootstrap" at least
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once:
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$ ./configure
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$ make
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$ cd lisp
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$ make recompile EMACS=../src/emacs
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$ cd ..
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$ make
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(If you want to install the Emacs binary, type "make install" instead
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of "make" in the last command.)
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Occasionally the file "lisp/loaddefs.el" will need be updated to
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reflect new autoloaded functions. If you see errors about undefined
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lisp functions during compilation, that may be the reason. Another
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symptom may be an error saying that "loaddefs.el" could not be found;
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this is due to a change in the way loaddefs.el was handled in CVS, and
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should only happen once, for users that are updating old CVS trees.
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To update loaddefs.el, do:
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$ cd lisp
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$ make autoloads EMACS=../src/emacs
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If either of the above partial procedures fails, try "make bootstrap".
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Users of non-Posix systems (MS-Windows etc.) should run the
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platform-specific configuration scripts (nt/configure.bat, config.bat,
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etc.) before "make bootstrap" or "make"; the rest of the procedure is
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applicable to those systems as well, except that the value of the
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EMACS variable on the Make command line might be different, e.g.,
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../bin/emacs.exe or some such.
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Questions, requests, and bug reports about the CVS versions of Emacs
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should be sent to emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org rather than gnu.emacs.help
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or gnu.emacs.bug. Ideally, use M-x report-emacs-bug RET which will
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send it to the proper place.
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Note on using SSH to access the CVS repository from inside Emacs
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Write access to the CVS repository requires using SSH v2.
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If you execute cvs commands inside Emacs, specifically if you use
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pcl-cvs, output from CVS may be lost due to a problem in the
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interface between ssh, cvs, and libc. Corrupted checkins have
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also been rumored to have happened.
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To fix the problem, save the following script into a file, make it
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executable, and set CVS_RSH to the file name of the script:
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#!/bin/bash
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exec 2> >(exec cat >&2 2>/dev/null)
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exec ssh "$@"
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This may be combined with the following entry in ~/.ssh/config to
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simplify accessing the CVS repository:
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Host subversions.gnu.org
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Protocol 2
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ForwardX11 no
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User YOUR_USERID
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