Re: Precompiled Emacs

[Jambunathan K]

You don't say what distribution you are working with.  Why not mess
around with the distributed deb-srcs and make a custom .deb out of it.

As you see below, you can choose one among the many different
alternatives for emacs.

kjambunathan@debian-6:/usr/bin$ ls -al | grep emacs
   5792 Dec 11  2010 b2m.emacs23
  82760 Dec 11  2010 ctags.emacs23
   3309 Aug  7  2010 dh_installemacsen
  34780 Dec 11  2010 ebrowse.emacs23
     23 Aug 18 15:54 emacs -> /etc/alternatives/emacs
      9 Aug 18 15:54 emacs23 -> emacs23-x
6583560 Dec 11  2010 emacs23-x
     29 Aug 18 15:54 emacsclient -> /etc/alternatives/emacsclient
  16816 Dec 11  2010 emacsclient.emacs23
  81064 Dec 11  2010 etags.emacs23
   7294 Dec 11  2010 grep-changelog.emacs23
   3983 Dec 11  2010 rcs-checkin.emacs23


Johan Andersson <johan.rejeep@gmail.com> writes:

> Well, the thing is that I don't want to install it there. I guess it's not
> possible to compile Emacs, archive it, move to another machine and there
> "make install" to the desired prefix?
>
> The purpose of this is to allow for fast installations and at the same time
> allow for multiple Emacs version. So that will not work with
> "/usr/local/emacs".
>
> I guess I could do:
>
> $ ./configure --prefix /usr/local/emacs-x.y.z --without-all --without-x
> $ make bootstrap
> $ tar ...
>
> ... move to another system
>
> $ make install
>
> That would mean a larger tar-file. But I guess I could "make install" on
> the compile system and then tar "/usr/local/emacs-x.y.z".
>
> Still... seems a bit weird that this limitation exists. Maybe there's a
> good reason for it?
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 10:43 PM, Kai Großjohann 
> <kai.grossjohann@gmx.net>wrote:
>
>> Johan Andersson wrote:
>> > I've read the instructions in INSTALL, which are very good. I tried and
>> did
>> > a build with:
>> >
>> > $ ./configure --prefix emacs-install --without-all --without-x
>>
>> The assumption is that the argument of --prefix is the fully qualified
>> directory name where Emacs is installed.  If you omit --prefix, it will
>> use /usr/local.
>>
>> Conventionally, people are expected to use values such as
>> /usr/local/emacs or /opt/emacs or something.
>>
>> Kai
>>
>>