Re: Building 24.3 on CentOS release 5.8 (Final)?

[Glenn Morris]

Tim Visher wrote:

> I'm trying to get emacs 24.3 installed. That means, afaict, that I
> need to build it from source.
>
> I followed these steps: http://pastebin.com/VYstcsYc

That's tiny, why not just include the text in your message?

FWIW:
You do not need autoconf to compile Emacs from a release tar file.
Nor do you need texinfo.
There's no point installing image libraries if you are going to
configure --without-x.

> And am getting this error message: http://pastebin.com/UDGQnrwM

  terminfo.c:50: undefined reference to `tparm'

IIRC, the solution might be 

  yum install ncurses-devel

(I think it's fixed in Emacs trunk.)

There's also

  yum-builddep emacs

as mentioned in INSTALL. Not sure it will work right in CentOS 5 though.