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From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Load path and custom compiling cvs on Debian
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:47:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874peh74yq.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8763yx668f.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au

On 2007-12-17 10:05 +0100, Tim X wrote:

> There are a number of things you need to do to get a CVS build of emacs
> work with debian managed elisp packages. The debian version of emacs 22 is
> modified to handle this and you will need to do the same sort of
> modifications to make this work with your CVS version. 
>
> The best way to do this is grep the files in the lisp directory of the
> debian version of emacs 22 for the string 'debian' (make it case
> insensitive). 

Not really.  The best way to do this is to download and unpack the
Debian emacs22 source package, e.g. with "apt-get source emacs22".
There you can find all the patches in the debian/patches subdirectory.

> I can't remember all the files that are modified, but it does include
> startup.el and I think paths.el and possibly some others. 
>
> You will also need to make the site-lisp of the installed CVS version
> (i.e. probably /usr/local/share/emacs/23.x/site-lisp a symbolic link to
> /usr/share/emacs22/site-lisp.

Could you elaborate on that?  The Debian packaged Emacsen look for site-lisp
directories both under /usr/share and under /usr/local/share.

> Note also that when emacs is built, aI think it dumps an image of itself to
> speedup startup. This means you cannot just modify startup.el and have it
> work. You need to modify it and then build emacs. 

Correct.

> At one stage there were some emacs22 snapshot packages being done - maybe
> google to see if you can find someone else who has done all the hard work

Snapshots of the Emacs trunk are still built weekly by Romain Francoise,
see http://emacs.orebokech.com/.  That's probably the best starting
point for building a debianized unicode-2 Emacs.

Sven

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-12-17 14:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.5036.1197654377.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-12-15  2:43 ` Load path and custom compiling cvs on Debian 方旭亮
2007-12-17  9:05 ` Tim X
2007-12-17 10:04   ` Thierry Volpiatto
2007-12-17 14:47   ` Sven Joachim [this message]
2007-12-19  7:26     ` Tim X
2007-12-14 17:46 John Wells
2007-12-14 18:23 ` Peter Dyballa
2007-12-14 19:44   ` John Wells
2007-12-14 22:47     ` Peter Dyballa
2007-12-15  4:28 ` Kevin Rodgers
     [not found] ` <mailman.5054.1197784667.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-12-18  7:09   ` Tim X
2007-12-18 11:46     ` Richard G Riley
2007-12-19  7:31       ` Tim X

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