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Re: How to build emacs? (2015-02 Fedora)
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Alexis |
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Re: How to build emacs? (2015-02 Fedora) |
Date: |
Fri, 06 Feb 2015 13:07:19 +1100 |
Tory S. Anderson writes:
I'm embarrassed to have to ask this, but I'm having trouble
figuring out how to build emacs. I decided to do this because
the version I get from my distro is: GNU Emacs 24.3.1
(x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.10.9) of 2014-09-30 on
buildvm-10.phx2.fedoraproject.org
and lately when I try to install packages from ELPA I receive
errors about not having emacs 24.4; ergo sum, I'm trying to get
the latest and greatest. But I followed these steps:
1. Get relevant links from
https://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=emacs 2. Run git clone
git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs.git
And this is where progress ends. I try to follow the INSTALL
instructions, but they simply don't make sense:
If you just want 24.4 (which is the current stable release),
rather than working with a bleeding-edge and unstable version, i
would recommend not cloning the repo, but simply downloading the
source of the official release:
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/#Obtaining
Once you unpack the archive, you can then:
$ cd [directory you unpacked the archive into]
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install
Note that there might well be a whole lot of dev packages you'll
need to install; the output of `configure` will assist you in
telling you what is required in this regard.
Alexis.