Re: Emacs in CVS as today does not build - emacs depends on *.elc, which cannot be built without emacs

[Kim F. Storm]

Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen <address@hidden> writes:

> Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen wrote:
> 
> > Is there a quick work around to get emacs up and running?
> 
> My apologies.  Apparently I did not read the Install document well
> enough - it appears that I should have run "make bootstrap" instead of
> "make".  Of course this popped up before me about 15 seconds after
> sending the mail.

This question pops up time and again!

Maybe we could add a test to the makefile, so that doing 'make' if
e.g. lisp/files.elc does not exist, it does 'cat INSTALL_CVS'
and exits?

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk