Re: How to build emacs? (2015-02 Fedora)

[Alexis]

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.