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CVS emacs and debian elisp packages
From: |
Andrew |
Subject: |
CVS emacs and debian elisp packages |
Date: |
27 Nov 2004 17:16:21 +1300 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp) |
So, I've just checked out the latest CVS version of emacs, compiled it
and installed it (using checkinstall, which makes a debian package).
I can't quite get it to use the existing libraries which debian has
installed, though. The debian emacs policy:
http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/debian-emacs-policy
says that
At a minimum, each emacs must have the following directories in the
given order in their load path:
/etc/<flavor>
/etc/emacs
/usr/local/share/emacs/<upstream>/site-lisp
/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp
/usr/share/emacs/<flavor>/site-lisp
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp
I tried adding the value of load-path in debian's emacs21 in both
~/.emacs and /usr/local/share/emacs/21.3.50/site-lisp, but I still
can't seem to load 'VM'. Perhaps for it to work, the things need to
be compiled in.
Perhaps it's a silly idea anyway. I note that the debian elisp
packages can call something to add things to load-path and such-like,
perhaps it's more trouble than it's worth. I just thought it would be
nice to be able to apt-get install quack-el or whatever and have it just go.
Any suggestions? Is it feasible to get a hand-compiled emacs working
with the ddebian elisp packages nicely with minimum of fuss, or should
I just install the ones I want by hand?
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