From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to install several Emacs versions on the same system? Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2015 22:13:08 +0300 Message-ID: <83k2r68ksb.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87d1wysb0w.fsf@mbork.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1443728107 26295 80.91.229.3 (1 Oct 2015 19:35:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 19:35:07 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 01 21:34:58 2015 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 1Zhjd3-00013a-VR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 21:34:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55684 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zhjd3-0004WQ-2j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 15:34:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48257) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZhjIB-0000fp-I3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 15:13:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZhjI7-0003cP-B5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 15:13:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:45898) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZhjI7-0003bI-41 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 15:13:19 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NVK00C002PM3900@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 22:13:17 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NVK00BZD2Q5SO60@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 22:13:17 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87d1wysb0w.fsf@mbork.pl> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 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:107435 Archived-At: > From: Marcin Borkowski > Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2015 20:23:43 +0200 > > I'm on GNU Emacs 25.0.50.1, but I'd like to have an older Emacs > installed, too. What is the fastest way to achive that? (I would > prefer to compile from source - I have the Git repository anyway, though > only shallow clone, but I can clone the whole thing, too.) Just do it, it's already supported. When say "make install", 2 identical binaries are installed, one of them with the name "emacs-X.Y.Z", the other called just "emacs". The latter will be overwritten on the next install, but the former stays. And each version has its own share/emacs/ subdirectory. IOW, it should "just work".