Re: emacs 23 & Debian

[Nurullah Akkaya <nurullah@nakkaya.com>]

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On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 4:37 AM, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr
> wrote:

> On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:21:46 +0300, Nurullah Akkaya <nurullah@nakkaya.com>
> wrote:
> > AFAIK for 23 your only change is to compile it your self but it is
> > really easy.
>
> ITYM `chance', but yes.  After struggling a bit with the
> packaging of Debian, I decided it isn't worth the trouble and
> compiled my own snapsnot of Emacs too.
>
> > To build it from source first make sure you have the following
> > packages installed
> >
> > build-essential
> > xorg-dev
> > libgtk2.0-dev
> > libjpg-dev
> > libgif-dev
> > libtiff-dev
> >
> > then checkout latest code using
> >
> > cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/sources/emacs co
> emacs
> >
> > this will create an emacs directory and put the sources in it.
> >
> > in order to build it go in to the directory and issue
> >
> > ./configure
> > make bootstrap
> > make
> > make install
> >
> > that's it.
>
> NOTE: `make' is not necessary after `make bootstrap', and `sudo
> make install' may be more useful when not building with superuser
> credentials.
>
> Having said that, this is a *very* nice, short and useful
> description of some build requirements for Emacs 23.X on Debian
> GNU/Linux.  Is there isn't already a page about this, do you
> think we can convince you to add it to the EmacsWiki?
>
> While you are at it, it may also be useful to list dependencies
> like `libm17n-dev' for multilingual text support, `libpng12-dev'
> and `librsvg2-dev' for more image formats, and `libotf-dev' for
> OpenType font support.
>
> If you have a bit of time and you can add this to the Wiki, that
> would be great.  If you are a bit busy but you would feel ok
> about someone else copying the text you wrote and using it as a
> basis for a page of the EmacsWiki, just email me and I will add
> the page.
>
>
I have created a page

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsSnapshotAndDebian

and linked it from

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryBuilding

Feel free to edit/add anything.
-- 
Nurullah Akkaya
http://nakkaya.com

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