Re: Tracking the latest changes

[Thomas Treichl]

Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso schrieb:
> When I want to see what the development sources are up to, I run "hg
> pull -u" and then "make" to recompile. This often fails because
> something changed in the build system, so I often need to reconfigure
> and build everything from scratch.
>
> Is there a better way to do this? Does everyone recompile Octave all
> the time? What's your workflow like?

;) I would say I recompile 3..4 times a week going through the whole process 
from 'make maintainer-clean', 'hg update -v', ..., './autogen.sh' until 'make 
test'. I wrote a shell script for doing all these things and I put all the 
output of the individual commands into a logfile, eg. 'make >> logfile.txt'. The 
final command of my shell script is 'shutdown -h now', ie. I start the build 
process in the evening before I say good night and check if something has gone 
wrong the next time I log in...

Best regards,

  Thomas