Thanks, everyone. What's the difference between emacs and bootstrap-emacs?

On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 2:59 PM, Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
wrote:

> On Sat, 12 Aug 2017 20:43:58 +0900 (JST) Tino Calancha <
> tino.calancha@gmail.com> 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
>