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  • How to update emacs-version?

    From Henry S. Thompson@21:1/5 to All on Wed Mar 20 15:35:02 2024
    After doing a pull -u that doesn't change much, and a make that
    succeeds, the result doesn't have an up-to-date value for
    emacs-version.

    The only way I've found to reliably get that updated is to do
    make distclean
    make
    which feels like using a sledgehammer to swat a fly.

    Surely there's a simpler/quicker way?

    Thanks,

    ht
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    Henry S. Thompson

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  • From Aidan Kehoe@21:1/5 to All on Wed Mar 20 16:43:46 2024
    Ar an fichiú lá de mí Márta, scríobh Henry S. Thompson:

    After doing a pull -u that doesn't change much, and a make that
    succeeds, the result doesn't have an up-to-date value for
    emacs-version.

    The only way I've found to reliably get that updated is to do
    make distclean
    make
    which feels like using a sledgehammer to swat a fly.

    Surely there's a simpler/quicker way?

    The following should do it:

    rm lisp/version.elc
    make

    By rights emacs-version should be in emacs.c rather than version.el for this reason, thanks for that.

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    ‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /
    How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’
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  • From Aidan Kehoe@21:1/5 to All on Sat May 17 13:25:53 2025
    Ar an fichiú lá de mí Márta, scríobh Henry S. Thompson:

    Aidan Kehoe writes:

    Ar an fichiú lá de mí Márta, scríobh Henry S. Thompson:

    After doing a pull -u that doesn't change much, and a make that succeeds, the result doesn't have an up-to-date value for emacs-version.

    The only way I've found to reliably get that updated is to do
    make distclean
    make
    which feels like using a sledgehammer to swat a fly.

    Surely there's a simpler/quicker way?

    The following should do it:

    rm lisp/version.elc
    make

    I don't _think_ that will do what we need. version.el appeals to emacs-extra-name, which is defined in emacs.c, appealing to XEMACS_EXTRA_NAME, which is defined in [src/config.h], which is not rebuilt by the above...

    Looking into this a bit more (after a year ...), XEMACS_EXTRA_NAME is updated by ./configure, and after a pull -u and a make that isn’t run. Re-running that
    explicitly does it.

    We could add rules to the Makefiles to call hg id at the same time we re-generate dump-id.c, and have a separate include file that defines XEMACS_EXTRA_NAME.

    Is this impacting your workflow significantly?

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