From: Glenn Morris Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 21:28:30 +0000 (+0000) Subject: A plea for fewer "it doesn't build" messages. X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-23.0.90~3087 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=01d909e2763134da34d3092017150e2e0516399b;p=emacs.git A plea for fewer "it doesn't build" messages. --- diff --git a/INSTALL.CVS b/INSTALL.CVS index 97da65af711..a9485e2ea99 100644 --- a/INSTALL.CVS +++ b/INSTALL.CVS @@ -61,6 +61,12 @@ should be sent to emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org rather than gnu.emacs.help or gnu.emacs.bug. Ideally, use M-x report-emacs-bug RET which will send it to the proper place. +Because the CVS version of Emacs is a work in progress, it will +sometimes fail to build. Please wait a day or so (and check the bug +and development mailing list archives) before reporting such problems. +In most cases, the problem is known about and is just waiting for +someone to fix it. + Note on using SSH to access the CVS repository from inside Emacs ----------------------------------------------------------------