Updating meep from source

[kalosu]

Hello there meep community,

I am currently using meep after building it from source by following the instructions given in Meep's documentation.
I would like to update my meep by pulling the newest source code with all of the latest merged new changes but I am not really sure if I can just re do the same thing that I did for building it the first time. If I do this, will my meep python modules be automatically updated once I call the functions after re-building from the source code?

Again, thanks for your feedback.

[smartalecH]

If you've already built once, then updating your build is rather easy.

Update your source repo:

git pull

Remake your sources (in parallel)

make -j

And reinstall

sudo make install

No need to reconfigure or rerun autogen.sh etc.

It will overwrite your existing installed files. So long as your PYTHONPATH is still set, you should be good to go.

[kalosu]

Great, it worked.
Thanks!