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Confusion in INSTALL.CVS instructions
From: |
Harry Putnam |
Subject: |
Confusion in INSTALL.CVS instructions |
Date: |
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:22:23 -0500 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) |
Developers:
I found the `INSTALL.CVS' file that accompanies a cvs check out of
emacs sources to be confusing on what the progression of commands is
supposed to be.
Here is the section that I find confusing:
> Building and Installing Emacs from CVS
> Some of the files that are included in the Emacs tarball, such as
> byte-compiled Lisp files, are not stored in the CVS repository.
> Therefore, to build from CVS you must run "make bootstrap" instead
> of just "make":
> $ cvs update -dP
> $ make bootstrap
> Of course, if this is the first time you go through it, you'll need
> to do ./configure before the "make bootstrap".
> Normally, it is not necessary to use "make bootstrap" after every
> CVS update. "make" should work in 90% of the cases and be much
> quicker.
> $ make
> (If you want to install the Emacs binary, type "make install"
> instead of "make" in the last command.)
It's not clear if on a fresh checkout one is supposed to run both
`make bootstrap' and `make' or if `make bootstrap' takes the
place of `make'.
It may not have confused anyone else but I suspect it does.
I'm currently waiting for make bootstrap to finish.
- Confusion in INSTALL.CVS instructions,
Harry Putnam <=