From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Compiling Emacs from source Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 10:52:17 +0100 Message-ID: <6849142B-5A20-45C9-AFBE-7F6F5579F145@Web.DE> References: <87pr2qo31h.fsf@belvoir.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1269683729 18899 80.91.229.12 (27 Mar 2010 09:55:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 09:55:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Henri-Paul Indiogine Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 27 10:55:25 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NvSji-00060w-FW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Mar 2010 10:55:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50237 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NvSjV-0005Uw-La for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Mar 2010 05:55:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NvSgs-0005EH-KX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Mar 2010 05:52:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=34520 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NvSgq-0005DI-1B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Mar 2010 05:52:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NvSgo-0000fK-FS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Mar 2010 05:52:23 -0400 Original-Received: from fmmailgate01.web.de ([217.72.192.221]:36635) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NvSgo-0000f4-9D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Mar 2010 05:52:22 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp05.web.de (fmsmtp05.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.4.166]) by fmmailgate01.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C22F151EC3F8; Sat, 27 Mar 2010 10:52:20 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [91.35.231.67] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtp05.web.de with asmtp (WEB.DE 4.110 #4) id 1NvSgk-0002jv-00; Sat, 27 Mar 2010 10:52:18 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87pr2qo31h.fsf@belvoir.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) X-Sender: Peter_Dyballa@web.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18ctsZrmGHPKtY91KWYUVbOQlyM7J3XrYz7x64j FX5/rEP5c3AMbIv2RcUA4J0gXhIJARErNjVlcNi8sVUwZyeUMI nz46/MkRuBXlFgkoYVYA== X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:72492 Archived-At: Am 27.03.2010 um 04:29 schrieb Henri-Paul Indiogine: > > I understand that compiling Emacs is much more than compiling just a > major mode package. It's less, because no package manager is involved, it's only you who =20 knows about this extra software. > > I tried to Google for any instructions on how to compile Emacs, but > could not find any. Since you've fetched the sources of GNU Emacs 24.0.50 with bzr you can =20= read the README and INSTALL files... > > I am also concerned about additional packages that come with the =20 > Ubuntu > distribution of Emacs. Would I have to go and find all of them and > compile them afterward as I now do for org-mode? No. Modern Emacsen understand the byte-code of their ancestors. =20 There's of course always a chance that some changes in ELisp are =20 incompatible. > > Is it worth it? Of course! The chance to find a bug... > Should I stay with version 23? There aren't noticeable differences. New configure options are =20 introduced: --with-mmdf, --with-mail-unlink, --with-mailhost. =20 Customize buffers now have a "Choose" button to pick a colour via list-=20= colors-display. A new completion style, "substring," has been added =20 and animated GIFs can be played =96 I could not try these yet. Since your Linux PC is controlled be a package manager you should =20 create a package from GNU Emacs 24.0.50 and install that. -- Greetings Pete Sorry my terrible English, my native language Lisp