Complilg to latest LE8.2.3 from 8.2.1

cat2115 · February 15, 2018 at 3:27 PM

I looked in wiki but I don't see how to update to latest after compiling from previous version. I do not want to "make clean".

Currently, I'm on LE8.2.1. Do I need to just do "git checkout 8.2.3". Anything I added/modified from 8.2.1 will still be their? Then just do

PROJECT=RPi2 ARCH=arm

Thanks

Schreibwaise · February 15, 2018 at 4:30 PM

The version number is part of the build tree, so when going from 8.2.1 to 8.2.3 everything needs to get rebuilt. Renaming the existing tree does not help as the absolute path is contained in many files. If your changes survive in the new version depends on how you did it. Did you commit them and did you set up your git to rebase on pulls?

cat2115 · February 15, 2018 at 5:11 PM

I always do a "make clean" or fresh start everything.

Thought their would be a way without doing all those.

Thanks,

Schreibwaise · February 15, 2018 at 7:19 PM

Always doing a "make clean" is not necessary. The build system ensures that only new stuff gets rebuilt. So if you just add some patch to eg. kodi itself, only kodi will get rebuilt but all the rest of the system is unchanged. Why are you wasting so much time and always do a "make clean"?

**CvH** · February 16, 2018 at 12:36 PM Official Post

Quote from Schreibwaise

The build system ensures that only new stuff gets rebuilt.

depends on the change, several packages that are at the toolchain require an make clean (basically everything? that is at the toolchain package)

cat2115 · February 16, 2018 at 8:16 PM

Thanks,

Basically, I did all these just in case something left behind then pull to master and then to get tag

Code

git clean -xfd
PROJECT=RPi2 ARCH=arm scripts/clean linux
rm -rf /home/User/.ccache-libreelec
PROJECT=RPi2 ARCH=arm make clean
PROJECT=RPi2 ARCH=arm make distclean  <--- next time I will do this too

git fetch origin
git reset --hard origin/master
git checkout master
git pull
git checkout 8.2.3

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**chewitt** · February 17, 2018 at 10:31 AM Official Post

The mistake most people make is tweaking things in the master branch instead of a local 'topic' branch. If you use a topic branch it becomes simple to fetch our "upstream" changes and rebase your modifications against the latest changes. If you tweak in our master branch, each time we modify the same file(s) you end up having to manually reapply them.