Building Packages:

Currently, source packages are only available via anonymous CVS. See http://www.xemacs.org/Develop/cvsaccess.html for details of checking out the packages module.

3.2.8 Prerequisites for Building Source Packages

GNU cp

GNU install

(or a BSD compatible install program).

GNU make

(3.79 or later preferred).

makeinfo

(4.2 from texinfo-4.2)

GNU tar

(or equivalent).

GNU gzip

(or equivalent).

A properly configured Local.rules file.

Local.rules File.

And of course, XEmacs, 21.0 or higher.

3.3 What You Can Do With Source Packages

The packages CVS sources are most useful for creating XEmacs package tarballs for installation into your own XEmacs installations or for distributing to others.

It should be noted that most of the package Makefiles do not need to contain any target rules. Everything is handled from the XEmacs.rules file, located in the toplevel directory of the packages source tree.