From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Confusion in INSTALL.CVS instructions Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:22:23 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87iqs1ljc0.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1223579153 9824 80.91.229.12 (9 Oct 2008 19:05:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 19:05:53 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 09 21:06:52 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ko0qR-00068z-VY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:06:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60290 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ko0pO-0000e7-2P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:05:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ko0pJ-0000dp-Fy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:05:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ko0pI-0000dR-M4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:05:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57622 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ko0pI-0000cC-G8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:05:32 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:41266 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ko09n-00061l-MZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:22:39 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Ko09f-00058b-GQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:22:31 +0000 Original-Received: from c-98-215-178-6.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.178.6]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:22:31 +0000 Original-Received: from reader by c-98-215-178-6.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:22:31 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 37 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-178-6.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:hokLtAtGB2n8clDJQOCBd67ItXw= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:104438 Archived-At: 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.