Re: build from CVS

[Stefan Monnier]

> Richard Stallman writes:
>  >     Richard, wasn't Make supposed to suggest "make bootstrap"
>  >     automatically?  It sounds like that isn't working.
>  > 
>  > `all' depends on `maybe-bootstrap' which seems to do
>  > the right thing.
> 
> I'm not sure this is correct.
> 
> My experience was that I recently did a `cvs update' followed by `make
> all' hoping to see the (way cool) Show/Hide menu feature and the
> resultant build did not work as I expected --- there was no Show/Hide
> menu item).  However, when I did `make bootstrap' and then `make all'
> I got the new feature in the resultant build.  FWIW.

`make all' only does the C compiling.
You need to do

        cvs update
        (cd lisp; make recompile)
        make all

I also occasionally do (cd lisp; make updates), although this might
not be necessary if you use the lisp/loaddefs.el straight out
of the repository (I don't).


        Stefan