From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stephen Berman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Help getting started debugging Emacs on macOS Sierra Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2017 13:59:07 +0200 Message-ID: <874ltduhdg.fsf@rosalinde> References: <83poc2qjc3.fsf@gnu.org> <83o9rmqh0j.fsf@gnu.org> <83lgmqqe83.fsf@gnu.org> <83378xjdel.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1502539166 22966 195.159.176.226 (12 Aug 2017 11:59:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2017 11:59:26 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Itai Berli , Emacs developers To: Tino Calancha Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 12 13:59:20 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dgV4Y-0005Wr-Hi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2017 13:59:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47839 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dgV4f-0007yo-19 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2017 07:59:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37903) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dgV4V-0007xb-9y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2017 07:59:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dgV4S-0006DS-9a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2017 07:59:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.15.15]:58311) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dgV4R-0006C2-Up for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2017 07:59:12 -0400 Original-Received: from rosalinde ([83.135.14.16]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx003 [212.227.17.190]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MQQzk-1e3U0d495o-00Tnod; Sat, 12 Aug 2017 13:59:08 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Tino Calancha's message of "Sat, 12 Aug 2017 20:43:58 +0900 (JST)") X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:6Qa1j2NXnOfXQXsGBUVfA+YIvqKLFBMcrWO8/tzu3DmeGsS60p8 Px6vxIW0xZ7D5YXQDE50aW3DhGTCK7A+16jHk4iyJzTwVM0SziG+WH+YzNckZ/MLoi1OLAk oSFQ1cKcBPdBhkxSlvkLWRFL7FiKnbhKpC2WHmzmdMGs8Z4/Fp5e/soKCb+ZBUkumoa9nsn JPeRdPFhNSyhf4vCHyknA== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:jehitfsq68c=:yhIeIJhfC3m4aIIehffDqC 19TBaTu+7xf0xIIVOUB0krKeWHWSnsR3Vw/sigXZ0pBpbfet2TFYX+6mqKs2v9gsImJgRaTKm Smp3LbYnHcAb8wZf/RwOltV5y1bV6kyqfWK51vaXntCH1aI7xKIODeqTOkqtW/xpNlzLZ3vl0 P1rL31qbBdZ/FLUQAamW3a4evSV1UhADy679Pm6U5jkRxR4pmQEwYSOpWluxNHOvMSp2hayBR Vmt6/7eFmdfFMqxTk/DYjASBubqDE6tsfu6AsaQeiw7ODVbH6Ildah6V4/Vl/QENDDX3JiOkW fGHlCHkIZn6J9OiCQup55vnO/3cAsm8NcbRTtFRHLBLDuht09V1UGkHZWllzzT4y6bYB1LD5a 5VzsmOSWvmhEmDsK9KmrZhxv3kd7lubU4t8rgPCCgimJ0B2lgogLDH2fWZSLD9dFtq+u+m8Bs zlm8OFa1b42SpYHi4p0BKvNcIctv8VvGCZLwo+x53P4Jb0C62jPT6ZbjH72DxBLC/rGNqr+lI 9dpHI8KOJAurx6Fmt6qXS4dR1RQSzyZ9PkcYEMJQOLJLeEy+N7nlIMuhyzh53Y0kP9ncfYqeD xT6ZfWwQ+Fgz4c9l7BaUfK0BDW6I9PKyJZikGLtaKNxb6mCi5XTvmUmg3DWKZsP4JOuBLIntS 8NVhOAYgBRyHamxMhO8/L1RUy+NBaMzZ5igcn+/qG+WPYxhgZa7hf9DHH5kXFE7znsNreQ2c6 zuKoqjYl1y+X1xKRy3XjVMpzGwSKVFuKsGqOGrJF2Ur3jJi4gWj6g7Rja5ldjLva6r5vUkG1 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 212.227.15.15 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:217475 Archived-At: On Sat, 12 Aug 2017 20:43:58 +0900 (JST) Tino Calancha wrote: > On Sat, 12 Aug 2017, Itai Berli wrote: > >> Thanks. A new executable appeared in the src folder: emacs-26.0.50.2Is this >> the executable that I need to run to see the changes >> I made? > Yes, that one. >> Generally speaking, whenever I make a change and rebuild, do I need to >> change the target file that I run (emacs-26.0.50.2, .3, >> .4, etc.)? > Yes, if you don't have bootstrap-emacs. > In my sistem running GNU/Linux, everytime i rebuild i get: *) emacs-26.0.50.N > (N=1,2,3, ...) > *) i also get the file bootstrap-emacs; this file is overwritten after > every compilation. I always chose bootstrap-emacs as the executable to > compile. IIUC, on GNU/Linux bootstrap-emacs is a hard link to the latest executable, and there should also be another hard link called simply emacs; that's what I execute when I want the most recent built executable. I don't know if other platforms also have this setup. Steve Berman