From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Compiling Emacs from source Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 06:05:40 +0100 Message-ID: <87aatu4amz.fsf@telefonica.net> References: <87pr2qo31h.fsf@belvoir.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1269666421 12464 80.91.229.12 (27 Mar 2010 05:07:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 05:07:01 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 27 06:06:54 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 1NvOEX-0002zo-N1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Mar 2010 06:06:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43966 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NvOEX-0006OO-50 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Mar 2010 01:06:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NvOE6-0006OJ-5A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Mar 2010 01:06:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54504 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NvOE4-0006O2-QB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Mar 2010 01:06:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NvOE3-000688-Lw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Mar 2010 01:06:24 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:60170) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NvOE3-00067y-ES for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Mar 2010 01:06:23 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NvOE1-0002nO-QF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Mar 2010 06:06:21 +0100 Original-Received: from 83.32.114.13 ([83.32.114.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 27 Mar 2010 06:06:21 +0100 Original-Received: from ofv by 83.32.114.13 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 27 Mar 2010 06:06:21 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.32.114.13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.93 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:bBdcknj84p3yls1ZSSe5YR1mVw8= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:72491 Archived-At: Henri-Paul Indiogine writes: [snip] > I tried to Google for any instructions on how to compile Emacs, but > could not find any. Try reading the file named `INSTALL' on the top directory of Emacs' source code. > I am also concerned about additional packages that come with the 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? You'll need some libraries if you want features like image support, antialised fonts, etc. You don't need to build those libraries yourself, just install their respective Ubuntu packages. > Is it worth it? Should I stay with version 23? The version that I was > able to obtain from the Emacs Bazaar repository is version 24. Anyway, I > think that just a more recent version of 23 is adventurous enough. Right now the differences among the upcoming maintenance release version 23.2 and the development version 24 are minimal, you'll hardly notice them, because they forked just days ago. So for now you gain very little on terms of new features by switching to the development version. Unless you intend to contribute to Emacs development or you found a showstopper bug in version 23 that was fixed on version 24, keep using the released version.