Re: A general way to install all dependent libraries when compiling Emacs from its git master source code.

[Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>]

Hongyi Zhao wrote:

> It's well known that Emacs relies on a number of libraries
> for its functionality. On the other hand, different
> operating systems have different package/library management
> tools and even the same library may have different names
> when installed on different operating systems. It would be
> handy if we had a common way to install all the dependent
> libraries when compiling Emacs from its Git Master source.
> For this purpose, I've noticed the vcpkg tool. But I'm not
> sure if there are some people here have some experiences for
> using this or the similar tools to solve this problem
> mentioned above.

What libraries do you mean?

Here is how I get and build it

#! /bin/zsh
#
# this file:
#   http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/conf/.zsh/install-emacs
#   https://dataswamp.org/~incal/conf/.zsh/install-emacs

local EMACS_SRC=https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/emacs.git

emacs-install-prepare () {
    sudo apt-get -qq update
    sudo apt-get install build-essential
    sudo apt-get build-dep emacs
}

emacs-src-reset () {
    git reset --hard
    git clean -xdf
    git pull $EMACS_SRC
}

emacs-src-get () {
    git clone $EMACS_SRC
}

# $ ./autogen.sh
# $ ./configure --with-x-toolkit=no
# $ make
# $ sudo make install

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