[Xastir] win32: keeping the old executable?

[Curt Mills, WE7U]

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Orrin Winton wrote:

> Any advice on saving my "old" executable before
> i do a cvs update & compile it?  Just in case i don't 
> like what i get when i compile, and want to go back
> to using 1.2.1.
> 
> This is Cygwin.  xastir.exe is in /usr/local/bin/
> I'm wondering if it's enough to keep a copy of the "old"
> xastir.exe someplace else, or is there a chance of
> the old xastir.exe not working anymore because OTHER
> libs or executables have changed with the new compile.

I'd just do this:

	cd src
	cp -R xastir xastir-old
	cd xastir
	cvs update

That way the old code is in the xastir-old directory.  You can always
switch back to that directory, do another "make install", and you'll
have the old executable back.

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