Re: About Emacs updating

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 18.01.2013 um 00:47 schrieb Xue Fuqiao:

> Whenever I want to use the trunk, I only need to:
> 
> bzr pull (or bzr update)

Depends on whether you have a full or partial copy of the mirrored branch, I 
think (I have meanwhile almost ¾ GB on disk). You'll see which of the two 
methods works. You can also use 'bzr pull -v' so see a bit of the cause for the 
change you are downloading.

> make (or make bootstrap)

No, there is one step more necessary: ./autogen.sh. Bzr will remind of this 
step.
It's also possible to change your mind and run configure with new settings; 
'./configure --help' gives an overview. 'make clean' can also be useful – 
otherwise, by using 'plain' make, a large number of DOC-<version>.<try> and 
emacs-<version>.<try> files can be installed.

> make install

Quite often a 'sudo make install' is necessary…


Most of these things can be performed in compile-mode in a *compilation* 
buffer. This can be a quite colourful experience…

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  Pete

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