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authorGlenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>2008-09-01 21:28:30 +0000
committerGlenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>2008-09-01 21:28:30 +0000
commit01d909e2763134da34d3092017150e2e0516399b (patch)
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parentd57a0b6762eca03a22461fcbbcabebd25deb77ad (diff)
downloademacs-01d909e2763134da34d3092017150e2e0516399b.tar.gz
A plea for fewer "it doesn't build" messages.
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@@ -61,6 +61,12 @@ should be sent to emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org rather than gnu.emacs.help
or gnu.emacs.bug. Ideally, use M-x report-emacs-bug RET which will
send it to the proper place.
+Because the CVS version of Emacs is a work in progress, it will
+sometimes fail to build. Please wait a day or so (and check the bug
+and development mailing list archives) before reporting such problems.
+In most cases, the problem is known about and is just waiting for
+someone to fix it.
+
Note on using SSH to access the CVS repository from inside Emacs
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