Compiling Emacs from source

[Henri-Paul Indiogine <hindiogine@gmail.com>]

I run the version of Emacs 23 that comes with Ubuntu Karmic, 23.1.1.   I
am wondering about compiling the latest developer version, maybe even
daily.  I do a daily update of org-mode from their git repository each
day.

I understand that compiling Emacs is much more than compiling just a
major mode package.  

I tried to Google for any instructions on how to compile Emacs, but
could not find any.

I am also concerned about additional packages that come with the Ubuntu
distribution of Emacs.  Would I have to go and find all of them and
compile them afterward as I now do for org-mode?

Is it worth it?   Should I stay with version 23?  The version that I was
able to obtain from the Emacs Bazaar repository is version 24. Anyway, I
think that just a more recent version of 23 is adventurous enough.

Thanks!



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