Re: New build process?

[David De La Harpe Golden]

On 27/07/11 14:56, David Kastrup wrote:


> The build process _is_ simple.  The question is more about it being
> discoverable.  Adding two sentences to INSTALL in the line of
>
>      These are the installation instructions for compiling Emacs from a
>      distribution tarball.  If you are working from a Bazaar checkout,
>      please refer to INSTALL.BZR.

Note INSTALL does already say, right near the top:

"""
For information about building from a Bazaar checkout
(rather than a release), also read the file INSTALL.BZR.
"""

Now, there's a small technical issue that "checkout" means something (or 
two things) specific in bzr jargon - heavyweight checkout / bound branch 
or lightweight checkout, so AFAIUI it's perfectly feasible to build 
emacs from a local bzr branch that isn't a checkout in bzr terms, but 
that's probably overly pedantic.

People who get their emacs sources from some unofficial git repository 
or something might conceivably think "oh, but I didn't use bzr or a 
release", but I don't think emacs can be responsible for such things - 
bzr is the current official VCS, for better or worse.