Trying to build from source on Ubuntu 8.04 Linux

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

David A. Cobb writes:

 > I saw from the download pages that the elisp sources are still under 
 > CVS.

The lisp sources for the core are those in the hg repo.  To get a
checkout of the tip, just check it out.  Mixing the hg C sources with
the CVS lisp sources won't work.

The unbundled packages (such as Gnus and cc-mode) are still in CVS in
the packages module.