Re: Build Emacs from CVS

[Pavel Janík]

   From: Stefan Naewe <address@hidden>
   Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 13:22:14 +0200

   > make[1]: *** No rule to make target
   > `/home/stefan/src/emacs-cvs/src/../lisp/abbrev.elc', needed by
   > `../etc/DOC'. Stop.
   > make: *** [src] Error 2
   > 
   > 
   > ../lisp/abbrev.elc is indeed not there. After looking through the Makefiles
   > a little bit I came to the conclusion that there's a circular dependency:
   > 'emacs' depends on '../etc/DOC' which depends on '../lisp/abbrev.elc' which
   > depends on (i.e. gets built with) 'emacs'.
   > 
   > Any ideas on that??

Instead of make, run make bootstrap.

BTW - shouldn't we create CVS FAQ? ;-) I think this is the most frequently
asked question today.
-- 
Pavel Janík

In the beginning, Emacs said "Let there be text."  And there was text.
                  --  Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> in 
alt.religion.emacs