From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bob Proulx Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs24 problem of installation on Debian testing (jessie) Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 09:38:53 -0700 Message-ID: <20140106163853.GA26913@hysteria.proulx.com> References: <871u0lc3ao.fsf@desiato.home.uhoreg.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389026364 7800 80.91.229.3 (6 Jan 2014 16:39:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 16:39:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 06 17:39:31 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W0DD2-0006ey-Om for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Jan 2014 17:39:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36132 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0DD2-00085X-E0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Jan 2014 11:39:24 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60533) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0DCf-00085L-Ow for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jan 2014 11:39:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0DCZ-00042t-OA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jan 2014 11:39:01 -0500 Original-Received: from joseki.proulx.com ([216.17.153.58]:58299) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0DCZ-00042n-HD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jan 2014 11:38:55 -0500 Original-Received: from hysteria.proulx.com (hysteria.proulx.com [192.168.230.119]) by joseki.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 658EA21228 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 2014 09:38:53 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: by hysteria.proulx.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 47ED02DCD4; Mon, 6 Jan 2014 09:38:53 -0700 (MST) Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 216.17.153.58 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:95281 Archived-At: Joseph Vidal-Rosset wrote: > I have finally discovered the error. I had try to build emacs from sources > and the emacs bin in /usr/local/ prevented a clean install of the Debian > package. It was simple, but it was very long and hard for me to understand > what happened ! I am happy to hear that you have solved your problem. You might consider reporting a bug to the Debian emacs package concerning the problem of a local emacs affecting the build. Having a version /usr/local/bin/emacs shouldn't prevent the system packaged emacs from installing. They could be separate from each other. I once submitted a similar bug and the Debian package maintainer was very responsive. We quickly determined that one particular elisp file didn't like being byte compiled by emacs21 that I still had installed on my system from long ago. Personally after finding that I was happy to remove emacs21 and just move along but the package maintainer added code in the postinstall script to handle that case going forward. It was really a win-win. Bob