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Document quick compile check steps
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This will install Python as ``python3``.
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Quickly checking that a source change still compiles requires only the first
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two steps above: run ``./configure`` once (or reuse a previous build directory),
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then run ``make -j`` from the top level to rebuild the changed files. If you
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want to be sure no stale artifacts interfere, run ``make clean`` before the
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``make`` step.
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You can pass many options to the configure script; run ``./configure --help``
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to find out more. On macOS case-insensitive file systems and on Cygwin,
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the executable is called ``python.exe``; elsewhere it's just ``python``.

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