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| author | Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> | 2014-12-13 17:57:46 -0800 |
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| committer | Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> | 2014-12-13 17:57:46 -0800 |
| commit | 4d806dc01d4ffdecadfe75e92f4f190952f5447c (patch) | |
| tree | 3113df870a09d4b3153db4ecfebbd8dc4dfa5469 /INSTALL.REPO | |
| parent | a8af924ba902d93d37fe6f519508ec1104246351 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-4d806dc01d4ffdecadfe75e92f4f190952f5447c.tar.gz | |
* INSTALL.REPO: Revert 2014-12-06 change.
You _can_ just run make after a clean checkout, thanks to the GNUmakefile.
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| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL.REPO | 11 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL.REPO b/INSTALL.REPO index 67dceb8c6eb..83b6f2f4133 100644 --- a/INSTALL.REPO +++ b/INSTALL.REPO @@ -1,5 +1,10 @@ Building and Installing Emacs from the Repository +Simply run 'make'. This should work if your files are freshly checked +out from the repository, and if you have the proper tools installed. +If it doesn't work, or if you have special build requirements, the +following information may be helpful. + Building Emacs from the source-code repository requires some tools that are not needed when building from a release. You will need: @@ -29,12 +34,6 @@ can invoke './configure -C'. After configuring, build Emacs as follows: If you want to install Emacs, type 'make install' instead of 'make' in the last command. -After your first build, you can usually just run 'make' after any -updates from the Savannah repository or local edits; the makefile -contains logic to re-run configure as needed. However, if the autoconf -input files have changed, or in some other situations, you will need -to run 'make bootstrap' (more below). - Occasionally the file 'lisp/loaddefs.el' (and similar automatically generated files, such as 'esh-groups.el', and '*-loaddefs.el' in some subdirectories of 'lisp/', e.g., 'mh-e/' and 'calendar/') will need to be |