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diff --git a/INSTALL.REPO b/INSTALL.REPO index 83b6f2f413..67dceb8c6e 100644 --- a/INSTALL.REPO +++ b/INSTALL.REPO @@ -1,10 +1,5 @@ Building and Installing Emacs from the Repository -Simply run 'make'. This should work if your files are freshly checked -out from the repository, and if you have the proper tools installed. -If it doesn't work, or if you have special build requirements, the -following information may be helpful. - Building Emacs from the source-code repository requires some tools that are not needed when building from a release. You will need: @@ -34,6 +29,12 @@ can invoke './configure -C'. After configuring, build Emacs as follows: If you want to install Emacs, type 'make install' instead of 'make' in the last command. +After your first build, you can usually just run 'make' after any +updates from the Savannah repository or local edits; the makefile +contains logic to re-run configure as needed. However, if the autoconf +input files have changed, or in some other situations, you will need +to run 'make bootstrap' (more below). + 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 |