Re: build from source

[Lawrence Velázquez <larryv@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Feb 1, 2024, at 8:36 PM, Ray Andrews wrote:
> Question, after getting the help done, next thing is 'make install', 
> now will that overwrite my existing 5.8?  I don't anticipate any issues 
> with 5.9 but if possible I'd like to keep 5.8 there in reserve, so 
> prevent any overwrites of, say, the stuff in /usr/share.../  or 
> wherever else.  I'm pretty sure I've done that previously -- kept the 
> new and the old side by side.  But not if it will be any trouble -- 5.9 
> isn't going to give me problems I don't think.  OTOH, If I'm running 
> the very latest build there's always that chance and I have to fire up 
> an older version due to some bug in the very latest.

It's not a great idea to make the unstable dev build your primary
shell.  If you just want to have it around for testing, you can run
it directly out of the build directory when needed.  (This is what
I do.)

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