What are the proper steps to UPDATE your seq?

[Gungadin]

I have done an install a while ago, following some of the wonderfull guides found in this forum, and had seq up and running fine.
Since then there have been sone nifty additions to the program (i like the configurable fov/range circle thingy idea) and i thought it would be time to update.

What i have done is a
cvs update showeq (instead of cvs checkout showeq)

and then
make -f Makefile.dist
./configure
make
make install

This seems to have worked (no compile errors etc) and the program starts up and i can see the new features (can't test if it actually works due to the patch) so i am assuming all went well.

But is this the correct way to update? I have seen options like 'make distclean' and i am wondering if i should have used them instead. Is there a RIGHT way to update, and if so you shed light on it, or can we pop up a guide on how to do it?
(i am using redhat 7.2 and followed the 'install for redhat7.2 guide')

Thanks

[Zaphod]

I generally recommend the 'make -f Makefile.dist' method. If you don't want a backup of your previous stuff do a 'make -f Makefile.dist no-backup'.

So, typically:


cd <your_SEQ_src_dir_here>/showeq
cvs update .
make -f Makefile.dist [no-backup]
./configure [your_preferred_options_here]
make
make install


where:
+ <your_SEQ_src_dir_here> is wherever you did your ShowEQ CVS checkout.
+ [no-backup] is the optional argument you specify to have Makefile.dist not make a backup of your existing configuration files.
+ [your_preferred_options_here] are any options you choose to pass to configure

Enjoy,
Zaphod (dohpaZ)