Re: building advice

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "d.henman" <address@hidden>
> 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.