before it builds the final Emacs binary.
If 'make bootstrap' fails, it may be necessary to do 'make maintainer-clean'
-followed by configure before trying it again. (Occasionally the loaddefs.el
-file gets into a bad state due to changes in the Lisp libraries; this procedure
-forces it to be regenerated.)
+followed by configure before trying it again.
Normally, it is not necessary to use "make bootstrap" after every CVS
update. Unless there are problems, we suggest using the following
(If you want to install the Emacs binary, type "make install" instead
of "make" in the last command.)
-Occasionally the file "lisp/loaddefs.el" (and similar *-loaddefs.el
-files in some subdirectories of lisp/, e.g. mh-e/ and calendar/) will
-need to be updated to reflect new autoloaded functions. If you see
-errors (rather than warnings) 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. Finally, sometimes
-there can be build failures related to *loaddefs.el. In that case,
-delete them before following the instructions below to update them.
+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
+updated to reflect new autoloaded functions. If you see errors (rather
+than warnings) 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. Finally, sometimes there can be build
+failures related to *loaddefs.el (e.g. "required feature `esh-groups'
+was not provided"). In that case, follow the instructions below.
To update loaddefs.el (and similar files), do:
$ cd lisp
+ $ make autogen-clean
$ make autoloads EMACS=../src/emacs
If either of the above partial procedures fails, try "make bootstrap".