On Tuesday 16 August 2005 22:01, David Soukal wrote: > Hello, > > I'm sorry to bring up this question since it's not really related > to Scribus itself, however I feel I need a clarification about the > compilation process and its steps. > > Could somebody involved, please, recapitulate what the correct > steps after synchronizing a local copy of the source tree with the > CVS server before compilation are? > > It happened to me several times (not only with Scribus) that I > updated the source tree and compiled the code only to find out that > the program crashes at situations where it didn't used to do > that... and the only help was to do "make distclean." > > Is an update followed by "make && make install" OK? Is it always > wrong? Should I recreate the ./configure file? At what times? > > Thank you for answering my questions, I'm sure others will benefit > too! > > David > _______________________________________________
After doing any CVS update: 1. make -f Makefile.cvs 2 ./configure 3. make ( grab coffee) 4. make install (as root) No need in 99.99% of the cases to need to make clean. Peter
