From: Eric S. Raymond Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 11:33:11 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Document when cvs -d up may be needed. X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-23.0.90~5010 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8669e78f2071e6a17d3514ae1f46f792ce0a22e4;p=emacs.git Document when cvs -d up may be needed. --- diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 6e49e7aa3cb..be26ec12c60 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2008-06-08 Eric S. Raymond + + * INSTALL.CVS: Indicate when cvs -d up may be needed. + 2008-06-07 Glenn Morris * Makefile.in (bootstrap-build): Remove mostlyclean, since it seems to diff --git a/INSTALL.CVS b/INSTALL.CVS index b8c42de27d5..54b2d561dcc 100644 --- a/INSTALL.CVS +++ b/INSTALL.CVS @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ 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 $ ./configure $ make bootstrap @@ -21,6 +22,15 @@ 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.) +If even 'make bootstrap' followed by 'make maintainer-clean' fails, it may +be that some reorganization of the tree has created a new subdirectory. Try +this: + + $ cvs -d update + $ make maintainer-clean + $ ./configure + $ make bootstrap + Normally, it is not necessary to use "make bootstrap" after every CVS update. Unless there are problems, we suggest using the following alternative procedure after you have done "make bootstrap" at least