Re: Help getting started debugging Emacs on macOS Sierra

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Itai Berli <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2017 12:53:24 +0300
> Cc: Emacs developers <address@hidden>
> 
> If I make a change to the code, for experimentation purposes, how do I 
> compile it so I can see my change in
> action and debug it? Should I run
> 
> ./autogen.sh
> ./autogen.sh git
> CFLAGS='-O0 -g3' ./configure
> make
> make install
> 
> or can I simply compile the file that I changed with the compiler (GCC or 
> Clang)?

Just "make" should do.  Since you are debugging the binary in the
source tree, not the installed binary, "make install" shouldn't be
necessary, AFAIU (but I don't know enough about the intricacies of
macOS installations).