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   1               Building and Installing Emacs from CVS
   2
   3 Some of the files that are included in the Emacs tarball, such as
   4 byte-compiled Lisp files, are not stored in the CVS repository.
   5 Therefore, to build from CVS you must run "make bootstrap"
   6 instead of just "make":
   7
   8   $ ./configure
   9   $ make bootstrap
  10
  11 The bootstrap process makes sure all necessary files are rebuilt
  12 before it builds the final Emacs binary.
  13
  14 Normally, it is not necessary to use "make bootstrap" after every CVS
  15 update.  Unless there are problems, we suggest the following
  16 procedure:
  17
  18   $ ./configure
  19   $ make
  20   $ cd lisp
  21   $ make recompile EMACS=../src/emacs
  22   $ cd ..
  23   $ make
  24
  25 (If you want to install the Emacs binary, type "make install" instead
  26 of "make" in the last command.)
  27
  28 Occasionally the file "lisp/loaddefs.el" will need be updated to
  29 reflect new autoloaded functions.  If you see errors about undefined
  30 lisp functions during compilation, that may be the reason.  Another
  31 symptom may be an error saying that "loaddefs.el" could not be found;
  32 this is due to a change in the way loaddefs.el was handled in CVS, and
  33 should only happen once, for users that are updating old CVS trees.
  34
  35 To update loaddefs.el, do:
  36
  37   $ cd lisp
  38   $ make autoloads EMACS=../src/emacs
  39
  40 If either of the above partial procedures fails, try "make bootstrap".
  41
  42 Users of non-Posix systems (MS-Windows etc.) should run the
  43 platform-specific configuration scripts (nt/configure.bat, config.bat,
  44 etc.) before "make bootstrap" or "make"; the rest of the procedure is
  45 applicable to those systems as well, except that the value of the
  46 EMACS variable on the Make command line might be different, e.g.,
  47 ../bin/emacs.exe or some such.
  48
  49 Questions, requests, and bug reports about the CVS versions of Emacs
  50 should be sent to emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org rather than gnu.emacs.help
  51 or gnu.emacs.bug.  Ideally, use M-x report-emacs-bug RET which will
  52 send it to the proper place.
  53
  54
  55 Note on using SSH to access the CVS repository from inside Emacs
  56 ----------------------------------------------------------------
  57
  58 Write access to the CVS repository requires using SSH v2.
  59
  60 If you execute cvs commands inside Emacs, specifically if you use
  61 pcl-cvs, output from CVS may be lost due to a problem in the
  62 interface between ssh, cvs, and libc.  Corrupted checkins have
  63 also been rumored to have happened.
  64
  65 To fix the problem, save the following script into a file, make it
  66 executable, and set CVS_RSH to the file name of the script:
  67
  68 #!/bin/bash
  69 exec 2> >(exec cat >&2 2>/dev/null)
  70 exec ssh "$@"
  71
  72 This may be combined with the following entry in ~/.ssh/config to
  73 simplify accessing the CVS repository:
  74
  75 Host subversions.gnu.org
  76      Protocol 2
  77      ForwardX11 no
  78      User YOUR_USERID