[slime-devel] Re: Important bug fix in CVS Emacs ...

[R. Mattes]

On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 10:00:27 +0000, Lawrence Mitchell wrote:

> Peter Seibel wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>> Yeah. I usually do make extraclean and then build the installer in the
>> mac directory. But last night I noticed that even after a 'make
>> extraclean' there were still .elc files around. So I reconfigured and
>> did 'make maintainer-clean' and then rebuilt. Now the animation seems
>> to be fixed for me too.
> 
> The reason things weren't working after a make && make install is
> that the change was to animate.el.  By default, make /doesn't/
> recompile .el files that are newer than .elc ones when building
> unless they are to be dumped with emacs (it only updates the
> temacs binary and redumps).  In order to make sure that .el files
> are recompiled the recommended build incantations are:
> 
> [checkout emacs]
> ./configure --options
> 
> make bootstrap
> make
> make install
> 
> [update emacs]
> make
> cd lisp && make recompile
> cd .. && make install

Just a question: shouldn't  there be a 

./config.status 

before the call to make? If some of your compilation/istalled libraries
changed one might need to do './config.status --recheck' ....

 HTH Ralf Mattes
> There are more detailed instructions in INSTALL.CVS
> 
> Lawrence