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Re: mac os x: how do you run emacs in-place?
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David Reitter |
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Re: mac os x: how do you run emacs in-place? |
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Wed, 26 Nov 2014 15:56:00 -0500 |
On Nov 26, 2014, at 2:01 PM, Sam Steingold <address@hidden> wrote:
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> On a normal unix system one can run Emacs from the build directory as
> "build/src/emacs", but it does not work on mac os.
> Is there a way to run emacs without "make install” ?
“make install” really just installs it into nextstep/Emacs.
When you do “make”, the binary is updated (src/emacs ->
nextstep/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs), which facilitates fast testing. So,
only the first “make install” is necessary to test when doing development,
unless non-preloaded (dumped) lisp files or other resources are changed. This
binary gets its resources from what is in nextstep/Emacs.app.
To test run after changes to the C code in src/, I usually do something like
make -j4
../nextstep/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -q