Re: Question on updating to 29.1 (on Ubuntu)

[PierGianLuca <luca@magnaspesmeretrix.org>]

Hi Byung-Hee,

I actually managed to compile the stable version without any problems on Ubuntu 20.04. Quite happy with the result. I list here some links that have been useful in understanding different aspects of the installation, and then the sequence of commands I used. Many people on this list have been very helpful in understanding several aspects of this.

Cheers,
Luca

- Useful links:

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BuildingEmacs
https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/whats-new-in-emacs-29-1
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/INSTALL
https://www.taingram.org/blog/emacs-native-comp.html
https://practical.li/blog/posts/build-emacs-from-source-on-ubuntu-linux/


My sequence of instructions – may not work for you, of course!

**NB** I decided not to use the GTK toolkit and toolkit scroll bars. If you want them instead, remove "--with-x-toolkit=lucid --without-toolkit-scroll-bars" from the instructions below.

# download tarball from https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/
# save it in some directory, then open a terminal in that directory


$ sudo apt build-dep -y emacs # to install dependencies needed

$ gcc --version # to check CC version, called [VERSION] below

$ sudo apt install libgccjit0 libgccjit-[VERSION]-dev

$ sudo apt install libjansson4 libjansson-dev gnutls-bin

$ tar -xf emacs-29.1.tar.xz

$ cd emacs-29.1

$ ./autogen.sh

$ ./configure --with-native-compilation --with-json --enable-link-time-optimization --with-x-toolkit=lucid --without-toolkit-scroll-bars

$ make

$ ./src/emacs -Q # to check if it works properly

$ sudo make install




On 231007 14:13, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote:
> Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> On Sat, 7 Oct 2023 at 06:52, Byung-Hee HWANG <soyeomul@doraji.xyz> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Like me, you do contact to Ubuntu team with Emacs update.
>>>>
>>>> What do you mean?
>>>
>>> I think that manaual building is not easy. Maybe there is a package
>>> for emacs 29.1 of Ubuntu?
>>
>> There’s this PPA that hosts the package backported from Debian Sid:
>>
>>      https://launchpad.net/~ubuntuhandbook1/+archive/ubuntu/emacs
> 
> Thanks Yuri, i'm also Ubuntu user as like Luca (OP).
> 
> Sincerely, Byung-Hee
>