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| author | Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> | 2014-12-06 02:11:36 -0600 |
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| committer | Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> | 2014-12-06 02:38:34 -0600 |
| commit | 06264b3d247b21be627d1bcd7d928cd3140d249a (patch) | |
| tree | d47798b293468d4a60a185f4c62e2cda64601627 /INSTALL.REPO | |
| parent | 7841e9348276c076eb6be26683ee25f0e0db4706 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-06264b3d247b21be627d1bcd7d928cd3140d249a.tar.gz | |
Improve CONTRIBUTE and related files.
* CONTRIBUTE: improve; add explicit web references, move some info from
admin/notes/* here.
* INSTALL.REPO: You can't "just run make" after a clean checkout.
* admin/notes/commits: deleted; merged into ./CONTRIBUTE
* admin/notes/repo: move commit, branch info into ./CONTRIBUTE
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL.REPO')
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL.REPO | 11 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL.REPO b/INSTALL.REPO index 83b6f2f4133..67dceb8c6eb 100644 --- a/INSTALL.REPO +++ b/INSTALL.REPO @@ -1,10 +1,5 @@ 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: @@ -34,6 +29,12 @@ 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 |