Branch: refs/heads/elextr-patch-2 Author: Matthew Brush matt@geany.org Committer: Matthew Brush matt@geany.org Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 05:09:42 UTC Commit: ea5d32a49f018aaa1cebf2ef863737d16192877e https://github.com/geany/geany/commit/ea5d32a49f018aaa1cebf2ef863737d1619287...

Log Message: ----------- Fix some grammar and spelling errors

Modified Paths: -------------- HACKING

Modified: HACKING 17 lines changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) =================================================================== @@ -154,24 +154,25 @@ into an executable program::

This usually takes a few minutes, depending on the speed of your system. This step is where you'll get all of your compilation errors -so if you've change the source code, take heed of the warning/error +so if you've changed the source code, take heed of the warning/error messages reported here.

If you have multiple CPUs/cores you can pass the `-j` option to `make` to have it spin up the specified number of concurrent processes where possible to complete the compilation and linking stages in less time. -Geany's build system is incremental, so after you hack on the code and +Geany's build system is also incremental, so after you hack on the code and want to rebuild, you can run `make` again and only the needed files -will be built, which makes it much faster than the initial build. +will be re-built, which makes it much faster than the initial build.

-Once Geany is built, we want to install it into the provided `--prefix` +Once Geany is built, we want to install it into the directory +previously specified to the `configure` script using `--prefix` option to test it, like this::

$ make install

-In fact, the `make install` rule will necessary run the complete build, -so you can skip running `make` by itself as above and instead just run -`make install`, combining the two steps into one. +In fact, the `make install` rule will necessarily run the complete +build, so you can skip running `make` by itself as above and instead +just run `make install`, combining the two steps into one.

Now that Geany is installed in our special isolated prefix, we can run it as follows:: @@ -203,7 +204,7 @@ to the master branch like this::

$ git checkout master

-Whenever you've made changes to the source in some branch and want to +Whenever you've made changes to the sources in some branch and want to test them, you can always re-run these commands::

$ make install

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