Re: Help getting started debugging Emacs on macOS Sierra

[Itai Berli]

Thanks, everyone. What's the difference between emacs and bootstrap-emacs?

On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 2:59 PM, Stephen Berman <address@hidden> wrote:

On Sat, 12 Aug 2017 20:43:58 +0900 (JST) Tino Calancha <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Sat, 12 Aug 2017, Itai Berli wrote:
>
>> Thanks. A new executable appeared in the src folder: emacs-26.0.50.2Is this
>> the executable that I need to run to see the changes
>> I made?
> Yes, that one.
>> Generally speaking, whenever I make a change and rebuild, do I need to
>> change the target file that I run (emacs-26.0.50.2, .3,
>> .4, etc.)?
> Yes, if you don't have bootstrap-emacs.
> In my sistem running GNU/Linux, everytime i rebuild i get: *) emacs-26.0.50.N
> (N=1,2,3, ...)
> *) i also get the file bootstrap-emacs; this file is overwritten after
>    every compilation.  I always chose bootstrap-emacs as the executable to
>    compile.

IIUC, on GNU/Linux bootstrap-emacs is a hard link to the latest
executable, and there should also be another hard link called simply
emacs; that's what I execute when I want the most recent built
executable.  I don't know if other platforms also have this setup.

Steve Berman