From: J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to install several Emacs versions on the same system?
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 15:17:19 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mv3d1v$d2b$2@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.54.1444228092.916.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
On Wednesday, October 7th, 2015, at 16:28:20h +0200, Oleh Krehel wrote:
> This way I always have access to the newest git version with only "make"
> (no "make install"). And also to the latest stable version in case the
> git version breaks.
May I suggest that you have a look at the "stow" utility which allows
multiple versions of "locally installed from source" software to be present
on a system and allows for very easy removal.
<http://blog.danieroux.COM/2005/08/07/using-gnu-stow-to-manage-source-installs/>
Latest version of stow at
<https://github.COM/aspiers/stow>
Under a stow build (using prefix /usr/local) and install
(to install-prefix or DESTDIR /usr/local/stow/{package_name}
you can then see all your locally installed from source
software under /usr/local/stow.
You can activate/deactivate which ones appear in the path with the
stow/unstow method, or even have multiple versions present if they are have
version dependent installation directories and names eg
emacs-23, emacs-24 rather than just emacs.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-07 15:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-01 18:23 How to install several Emacs versions on the same system? Marcin Borkowski
2015-10-01 19:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-01 19:26 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-10-01 20:11 ` Bob Proulx
2015-10-02 0:07 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-10-07 14:28 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-10-07 15:08 ` Tassilo Horn
[not found] ` <mailman.54.1444228092.916.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-10-07 15:17 ` J G Miller [this message]
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