Upgrading Emacs from Git

Upgrading Emacs from Git

[Marcin Borkowski]

Hi,

a quick question: I compiled Emacs from Git and now want to upgrade it.
Is it enough to pull a fresh version and then make && make install?

Best,

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Marcin Borkowski
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Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University

Re: Upgrading Emacs from Git

[Gregor Zattler]

Hi Marcin, 
* Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> [10. Feb. 2016]:
> a quick question: I compiled Emacs from Git and now want to upgrade it.
> Is it enough to pull a fresh version and then make && make install?

A simple   git pull   is all you need to do in order to get new
commits.  After that do a make && make install.

Ciao, Gregor
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Re: Upgrading Emacs from Git

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 11:22:53 +0100
> 
> a quick question: I compiled Emacs from Git and now want to upgrade it.
> Is it enough to pull a fresh version and then make && make install?

It should be enough to "git pull" into the same repository where you
have the previous version, and then "make && make install".

Re: Upgrading Emacs from Git

[Óscar Fuentes]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> a quick question: I compiled Emacs from Git and now want to upgrade it.
>> Is it enough to pull a fresh version and then make && make install?
>
> It should be enough to "git pull" into the same repository where you
> have the previous version, and then "make && make install".

If "make" fails, try "make bootstrap".

Re: Upgrading Emacs from Git

[Emanuel Berg]

Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> writes:

>> It should be enough to "git pull" into the same
>> repository where you have the previous version, and
>> then "make && make install".
>
> If "make" fails, try "make bootstrap".

What do you do if that fails as well?

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Re: Upgrading Emacs from Git

[Óscar Fuentes]

Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:

>>> It should be enough to "git pull" into the same
>>> repository where you have the previous version, and
>>> then "make && make install".
>>
>> If "make" fails, try "make bootstrap".
>
> What do you do if that fails as well?

In the directory that contains the git checkout execute:

git clean -f -d -x

That ensures that you are using a pristine source directory. Then

make

If that fails, then the build is broken due to some erroneous change
made by the developers. Wait one day or two, "git pull" again, repeat
the build process. If the build is still broken, on Emacs do

M-x report-emacs-bug

including details about your setup (compiler, library versions, etc) and
the output of the build at the failure point.

It is possible to check out a previous vesion (one day ago, for
instance) instead of waiting for a fix upstream, but that requires and
slightly more complicated git usage.

Re: Upgrading Emacs from Git

[P. A. López-Valencia]

El 10/02/2016 a las 7:52 p. m., Emanuel Berg escribió:
> Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> writes:
>
>>> It should be enough to "git pull" into the same
>>> repository where you have the previous version, and
>>> then "make && make install".
>>
>> If "make" fails, try "make bootstrap".
>
> What do you do if that fails as well?
>

You do:

[you@yourbox /path/to/emacs-git-repo-copy] $ make distclean && 
./configure [--config-flags] && make

Re: Upgrading Emacs from Git

[Emanuel Berg]

Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> writes:

>> What do you do if that fails as well?
>
> In the directory that contains the git checkout
> execute:
>
> git clean -f -d -x
>
> That ensures that you are using a pristine source
> directory. Then
>
> make
>
> If that fails, then the build is broken due to some
> erroneous change made by the developers. Wait one day
> or two, "git pull" again, repeat the build process.
> If the build is still broken, on Emacs do
>
> M-x report-emacs-bug
>
> including details about your setup (compiler, library
> versions, etc) and the output of the build at the
> failure point.
>
> It is possible to check out a previous vesion (one day
> ago, for instance) instead of waiting for a fix
> upstream, but that requires and slightly more
> complicated git usage.

Case closed :)

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Re: Upgrading Emacs from Git

[Stefan Monnier]

>> a quick question: I compiled Emacs from Git and now want to upgrade it.
>> Is it enough to pull a fresh version and then make && make install?
> A simple   git pull   is all you need to do in order to get new
> commits.  After that do a make && make install.

FWIW, I just do "make" and never run "make install".


        Stefan