Re: howto build separate cvs version?

[Daniel <daniel@warum-ada.de>]

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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