(If you want to install the Emacs binary, type "make install" instead
of "make" in the last command.)
-Occasionally the file "lisp/loaddefs.el" will need be updated to reflect
-new autoloaded functions. If you see errors about undefined lisp
-functions during compilation, that may be the reason. Another symptom
-may be an error saying that "loaddefs.el" could not be found; this is
-due to a change in the way loaddefs.el was handled in CVS, and should
-only happen once, for users that are updating old CVS trees.
+Occasionally the files "lisp/loaddefs.el" or lisp/mh-e/mh-loaddefs.el
+will need be updated to reflect new autoloaded functions. If you see
+errors about undefined lisp functions during compilation, that may be
+the reason. Another symptom may be an error saying that "loaddefs.el"
+could not be found; this is due to a change in the way loaddefs.el was
+handled in CVS, and should only happen once, for users that are
+updating old CVS trees.
-To update loaddefs.el, do:
+To update loaddefs.el and mh-loaddefs.el, do:
$ cd lisp
- $ make autoloads EMACS=../src/emacs
+ $ make autoloads mh-autoloads EMACS=../src/emacs
-If either of above procedures fails, try "make bootstrap".
+If either of the above partial procedures fails, try "make bootstrap".
Users of non-Posix systems (MS-Windows etc.) should run the
platform-specific configuration scripts (nt/configure.bat, config.bat,
etc.) before "make bootstrap" or "make"; the rest of the procedure is
-applicable to those systems as well.
+applicable to those systems as well, except that the value of the
+EMACS variable on the Make command line might be different, e.g.,
+../bin/emacs.exe or some such.
Questions, requests, and bug reports about the CVS versions of Emacs
should be sent to emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org rather than gnu.emacs.help
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