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Re: building emacs
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Jean-Christophe Helary |
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Re: building emacs |
Date: |
Wed, 31 May 2017 20:24:03 +0900 |
> On May 31, 2017, at 20:19, Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm not an authoritative source but:
>
> 1. I'd generally always run ./configure again no matter what the software is
> unless I absolutely knew the ins and outs of the configure script and knew
> nothing had changed.
OK.
> 2. make is an incremental build system generally, though emacs use of it
> might not be such. Have you tested it? Just run make and then modify a single
> source file and run make again and see what happens.
I did build emacs twice today and the second time did not feel noticeably
shorter than the first. But I'll check again. I thought maybe there was a
parameter to make to have it work incrementally.
Thank you.
Jean-Christophe