Re: Build Emacs from CVS

[Stefan Naewe]

Pavel Janík wrote:

>    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.


Thanks! Meanwhile I've found that out myself.



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

Why not create a file README.CVS or INSTALL.CVS in the main directory 
telling about the different CVS branches that are used, and what make target 
to use.

Thanks

Stefan
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