From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: building advice Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2007 15:09:12 +0300 Message-ID: References: <20070908195710.2004@blackhawk> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189253360 12746 80.91.229.12 (8 Sep 2007 12:09:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 12:09:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "d.henman" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 08 14:09:20 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ITz7k-0001fi-Vj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2007 14:09:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ITz7i-00030G-Qa for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2007 08:09:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ITz7g-0002zx-5d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2007 08:09:12 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ITz7f-0002zT-LS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2007 08:09:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ITz7f-0002zJ-JQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2007 08:09:11 -0400 Original-Received: from nitzan.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.22]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ITz7f-0003a1-5X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2007 08:09:11 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-141-251.inter.net.il [80.230.141.251]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id HTD07028 (AUTH halo1); Sat, 8 Sep 2007 15:06:26 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <20070908195710.2004@blackhawk> (dhenman@gmail.com) X-Detected-Kernel: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:78262 Archived-At: > From: "d.henman" > Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2007 19:57:10 +0900 > cc: > > I need some advise on how to test certain fixes and not have to rebuild > the whole emacs cvs tree all over... This is very time consuming to > try build fixes... > > For example, in my case, I am trying to figure out if some changes I made in the tramp files, enables them to byte compile properly on my system. > > I tried using emacs --batch tramp*.el [with an existing emacs] and > temacs --batch tramp*.el [with the partially built emacs] > > I am sure there are various environment variables involved in the process as well. > For now I just make changes, distclean, and rebuild. This takes as you all know a long time to find out if I did anything right to at least allow a clean compile. One way to do it easier is to chdir to the lisp/ directory, and then type these commands: make cvs-update EMACS=../src/emacs if you are on a Unix-like system, or make cvs-update EMACS=../src/oo-spd/i386/emacs.exe if you are on MS-Windows.