Re: What should I do when building Emacs again with different configure options?

[Hongxu Chen <leftcopy.chx@gmail.com>]

Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Xue Fuqiao wrote:
>>> make distclean
>>> ./configure
>>> ./configure --this-time-it-is-a-different-option
>> No.
>>> or just run `make distclean' and use the different option?
>> Yes.
>
> Ah, I see, thank you.  So could we remove the "./configure"?  It looks
> confusing.
>
> === modified file 'INSTALL'
> --- INSTALL    2013-07-20 19:20:33 +0000
> +++ INSTALL    2013-07-27 22:27:32 +0000
> @@ -98,7 +98,6 @@
>    first clean the source directories:
>
>          make distclean
> -        ./configure
>
>    Note that the install automatically saves space by compressing
>    (provided you have the `gzip' program) those installed Lisp source (.el)

Hi Fuqiao, I suggest you read a some tutorials about autotools.

And here is a link: http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~adl/dl/autotools.pdf

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Regards,
Hongxu Chen