Re: howto build separate cvs version?

[Daniel]

knubee wrote:
> I'm trying to install a cvs version of emacs -- but do not want it to
> interfere/interact with my existing installation. I just want to be
> able to try out the cvs version a bit.
>
> After looking around, it seemed as if the main things to do were a)
> ensure that everything was configured for an install directory that
> differs from the location of my existing installation; and b) give the
> build a suffix so as to call it by name.
>
> Here is what I tried:
>
> > cd /test
> > cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sv.gnu.org:/sources/emacs co -d 
> > emacs-cvs-source emacs
> > cd /emacs-cvs-installation
> > /test/emacs-cvs-source/configure --prefix=/test/emacs-cvs-installation 
> > --program-suffix=-from-cvs
> > make bootstrap
> > make
> > make install
>
> This seems to complete without error, but the following generates an
> error:
>
> > emacs-from-cvs
> bash: emacs-from-cvs: command not found
>
> What am I doing wrong?
Is /test/emacs-cvs-installation in your $PATH?
Anyway, try
  ./emacs-from-cvs
and/or
  /test/emacs-cvs-installation

Greetings
----Daniel



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