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   4
   5              Building and Installing Emacs from the Repository
   6
   7 Simply run 'make'.  This should work if your files are freshly checked
   8 out from the repository, and if you have the proper tools installed.
   9 If it doesn't work, or if you have special build requirements, the
  10 following information may be helpful.
  11
  12 Building Emacs from the source-code repository requires some tools
  13 that are not needed when building from a release.  You will need:
  14
  15 autoconf  - at least the version specified near the start of
  16   configure.ac (in the AC_PREREQ command).
  17 automake  - at least the version specified near the start of
  18   configure.ac (in the AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE command).
  19 git - at least Git 1.7.1.  If your repository was created by an older
  20   Git version, you may need to reclone it.
  21 makeinfo  - not strictly necessary, but highly recommended, so that
  22   you can build the manuals.
  23
  24 To use the autotools, run the following shell command to generate the
  25 'configure' script and some related files:
  26
  27   $ ./autogen.sh
  28
  29 You can then configure your build as follows:
  30
  31   $ ./configure
  32
  33 The 'configure' script has many options; run './configure --help' to
  34 see them.  For example, if you want later builds to go faster, albeit
  35 sometimes doing the wrong thing if you update the build procedure, you
  36 can invoke './configure -C'.  After configuring, build Emacs as follows:
  37
  38   $ make
  39
  40 If you want to install Emacs, type 'make install' instead of 'make' in
  41 the last command.
  42
  43 Occasionally the file 'lisp/loaddefs.el' (and similar automatically
  44 generated files, such as 'esh-groups.el', and '*-loaddefs.el' in some
  45 subdirectories of 'lisp/', e.g., 'mh-e/' and 'calendar/') will need to be
  46 updated to reflect new autoloaded functions.  If you see errors (rather
  47 than warnings) about undefined lisp functions during compilation, that
  48 may be the reason.  Finally, sometimes there can be build failures
  49 related to '*loaddefs.el' (e.g., "required feature `esh-groups' was not
  50 provided").  In that case, follow the instructions below.
  51
  52 To update loaddefs.el (and similar files), do:
  53
  54   $ cd lisp
  55   $ make autoloads
  56
  57 If either of the above partial procedures fails, try 'make bootstrap'.
  58 If CPU time is not an issue, 'make bootstrap' is the most thorough way
  59 to rebuild, and avoid any spurious problems.
  60
  61 Because the repository version of Emacs is a work in progress, it will
  62 sometimes fail to build.  Please wait a day or so (and check the
  63 archives of the emacs-buildstatus, emacs-devel, and bug-gnu-emacs
  64 mailing lists) before reporting such problems.  In most cases, the
  65 problem is known about and is just waiting for someone to fix it.
  66 This is especially true for Lisp compilation errors, which are almost
  67 never platform-specific.
  68
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