Mac: Compiling new minor version

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Hey. Have had v0.6.0 tag checked out out and compiled.
I want to upgrade it to latest stable.

Before I ruin the installation, is this the recommended commands:?

cd Rack
make clean
git checkout v0.6
git pull
git submodule update --init --recursive
make dep
make

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https://vcvrack.com/manual/Building.html

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You could nuke the whole thing and start over, by just following Andrew’s link, that would always be the safe thing to do. I suppose your question is: Do I have to do that or is there a safe way to just get the updates from the branch and building again?

I think the following is pretty safe (I did it a couple of days ago myself):

cd Rack
make clean
cd dep
make clean
cd ..
git checkout v0.6
git pull
git submodule update --init --recursive
make dep
make

On Windows and Linux you can add -j$(nproc) right after make for performance, and on Mac it’s -j$(sysctl -n hw.ncpu) instead.

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Yeah, when I upgrade on Win/Linux I nuke it. But I have limited time on the Mac, so I prefer to just update the branch there once I get access to it again.

Thanks for replying.

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