Re: porting XEmacs to MacOS X

On Jun 8, 2004, at 4:55 AM, Michael Sperber wrote:

>>>>>> "Ovidiu" == Ovidiu Predescu <[email protected]> writes:
>
> Ovidiu> I've got a question regarding the development methodology. I'd 
> like to
> Ovidiu> have a little faster development cycle. Right now when I 
> modify either
> Ovidiu> the C or the Lisp code I rebuild by doing a make in the src/
> Ovidiu> directory. This tends to take quite a bit of time, so I was 
> wondering
> Ovidiu> if there is a better way of doing things, especially when only 
> Lisp
> Ovidiu> code is involved. Ideally I'd like to not have to recompile 
> and dump
> Ovidiu> the Lisp files used during the startup.
>
> Ovidiu> Is there a better way to do things?
>
> Use the "check-temacs" make target to start the whole thing up without
> the intermediate dumping step.  More info can be found in the
> "Building XEmacs" section in the Lispref info manual.

This does it, thanks a lot!

For reference and search engines, this is the command to use:

./xemacs -nd -no-packages -l `pwd`/../lisp/loadup.el run-temacs -vanilla

Thanks,
Ovidiu