Re: Bootstrapping CVS Emacs fails with VC 2003 on Windows XP Professional

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:49:22 +0530
> From: dhruva <dhruvakm@gmail.com>
> Cc: jasonr@gnu.org, emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
> 
> On 8/15/07, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> >     make recompile EMACS=../src/oo-spd/i386/emacs.exe
> 
> Is it possible (technically) to use the emacs in the BLD folder
> instead of the one under 'bin'?

Yes.  That's exactly what the command I show above does.

emacs.exe in the BLD directory is a normal dumped Emacs, it's just not
installed in `bin', and, possibly, didn't yet pick up all the latest
doc strings due to modified Lisp files.  "make install" handles both
of these issues, but for compiling Lisp files, emacs.exe in BLD is
usually good enough.

> The emacs executable will be always under the BLD folder before a
> call to 'recompile', am I right in this assumption?

"make recompile" doesn't do anything with emacs.exe, so I'm unsure
what you are asking here.

In any case, if bin/emacs.exe is up to date, it's better to use it
than src/oo-spd/i386/emacs.exe, because the former is guaranteed to
have all the latest changes in doc strings and have all the latest
Lisp files preloaded into it.