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