Re: Comms and building Emacs. [Re: Framework extending window functions for Follow Mode (etc.).]

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, John.

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 05:15:48PM +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

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> 1. The process is described in INSTALL.REPO in our top level directory.
> 2. This process is basically:
>   (i) From the top level directory ...
>   (ii)  ./autogen.sh
>   (iii) ./configure    # You can put options here, such as for
>                        # debugging, or a host of other things.
>   (iv) make -j5 bootstrap # This step is critical the first time you
>                           # build a repository.  The "-j5" is for the
>                         # number of make jobs you have running at a
>                         # time.  Recommended: # of cores + 1.

Correction:  The make bootstrap is not needed on a new repository.  I've
just tried it.  Apologies.

>   (v) make -j5            # For the second and subsequent times you
>                           # build.
> 3. The executable "emacs", hard-linked to "emacs-25.0.50.n", ends up in
> the src directory.  To run it, just type "src/emacs -Q" (or whatever).


> > John

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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).