From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Johan Andersson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Precompiled Emacs Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 09:26:13 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87wqkpxnrm.fsf@gmail.com> <5276C383.4020009@gmx.net> <87txfsfuaf.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1383553606 17981 80.91.229.3 (4 Nov 2013 08:26:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 08:26:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kai_Gro=DFjohann?= To: Jambunathan K Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 04 09:26:51 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VdFUk-0000AM-S8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 09:26:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48610 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VdFUk-00074E-GR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 03:26:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58962) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VdFUZ-000749-Ec for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 03:26:36 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VdFUY-0007e7-7D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 03:26:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-ob0-x233.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4003:c01::233]:43262) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VdFUY-0007e2-19 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 03:26:34 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-ob0-f179.google.com with SMTP id uy5so6827660obc.10 for ; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 00:26:33 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=mXxh99q7y4Nloibl7KbMd69dhEz2hSOIQEAckqBKCt0=; b=h8/1D68Lzqy9NvL+bBxRoFYCFlUOPZ4KY/I5ExgiYFRWt4FZCGwy8QFlcPuVVqTa4e zK7wlb/vffrqmgLxzcjRMWIDih7PV1SjW321i5mUPipVraMzCWi+bMNzKI+bwVF+Wbzm eKl303I+oDAEmDEsI4UXAOSuLkl7k/SIjUvv4MRtEdtvSMQYEJ0StEUo7dwSJrDwtthP gtxZs+pqtmlYTH1Hk7ynaHHCXjSgHgo7lCHC4d+hjHS07E5vDZX3jV5h81VTxYOZMeyJ 14WHdh64aLt4Oz7cVnjv3yAYXog0jtPgY+754kFjrHvmtDmQMHEtSiAQQMlgSV4ZhnzY bv1w== X-Received: by 10.60.60.105 with SMTP id g9mr13349168oer.8.1383553593320; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 00:26:33 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.182.31.103 with HTTP; Mon, 4 Nov 2013 00:26:13 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87txfsfuaf.fsf@gmail.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4003:c01::233 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:94315 Archived-At: > You don't say what distribution you are working with. Any, that's the idea. On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Jambunathan K wrote= : > > You don't say what distribution you are working with. Why not mess > around with the distributed deb-srcs and make a custom .deb out of it. > > As you see below, you can choose one among the many different > alternatives for emacs. > > kjambunathan@debian-6:/usr/bin$ ls -al | grep emacs > 5792 Dec 11 2010 b2m.emacs23 > 82760 Dec 11 2010 ctags.emacs23 > 3309 Aug 7 2010 dh_installemacsen > 34780 Dec 11 2010 ebrowse.emacs23 > 23 Aug 18 15:54 emacs -> /etc/alternatives/emacs > 9 Aug 18 15:54 emacs23 -> emacs23-x > 6583560 Dec 11 2010 emacs23-x > 29 Aug 18 15:54 emacsclient -> /etc/alternatives/emacsclient > 16816 Dec 11 2010 emacsclient.emacs23 > 81064 Dec 11 2010 etags.emacs23 > 7294 Dec 11 2010 grep-changelog.emacs23 > 3983 Dec 11 2010 rcs-checkin.emacs23 > > > Johan Andersson writes: > > > Well, the thing is that I don't want to install it there. I guess it's > not > > possible to compile Emacs, archive it, move to another machine and ther= e > > "make install" to the desired prefix? > > > > The purpose of this is to allow for fast installations and at the same > time > > allow for multiple Emacs version. So that will not work with > > "/usr/local/emacs". > > > > I guess I could do: > > > > $ ./configure --prefix /usr/local/emacs-x.y.z --without-all --without-x > > $ make bootstrap > > $ tar ... > > > > ... move to another system > > > > $ make install > > > > That would mean a larger tar-file. But I guess I could "make install" o= n > > the compile system and then tar "/usr/local/emacs-x.y.z". > > > > Still... seems a bit weird that this limitation exists. Maybe there's a > > good reason for it? > > > > > > On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 10:43 PM, Kai Gro=DFjohann >wrote: > > > >> Johan Andersson wrote: > >> > I've read the instructions in INSTALL, which are very good. I tried > and > >> did > >> > a build with: > >> > > >> > $ ./configure --prefix emacs-install --without-all --without-x > >> > >> The assumption is that the argument of --prefix is the fully qualified > >> directory name where Emacs is installed. If you omit --prefix, it wil= l > >> use /usr/local. > >> > >> Conventionally, people are expected to use values such as > >> /usr/local/emacs or /opt/emacs or something. > >> > >> Kai > >> > >> >