Re: build from source code

[Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>]

soyeomul wrote:

> I am using now GNU Emacs 27.1 under Debian 11 Bullseye.

I'm also on Debian but I run

M-x emacs-version RET

  GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, cairo
  version 1.16.0) of 2021-08-27

$ cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="11"
VERSION="11 (bullseye)"
VERSION_CODENAME=bullseye
ID=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"

> By the way for some reason, i would like to get 27.2
> version. Actually i did fail to search new package GNU Emacs
> 27.2 in Debian Project repository. So i have to try a way of
> build manually?
>
> Any guidence and comments welcome!

This works for the me with 28.0, perhaps you don't need the
"reset" part ...

#! /bin/zsh
#
# this file:
#   http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/conf/.zsh/install-emacs
#   https://dataswamp.org/~incal/conf/.zsh/install-emacs

local EMACS_SRC=https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/emacs.git
local EMACS_DIR=~/src

emacs-install-prepare () {
    sudo apt-get -qq update
    sudo apt-get install build-essential
    sudo apt-get build-dep emacs
}

emacs-src-reset () {
    cd $EMACS_DIR
    git reset --hard
    git clean -xdf
    git pull $EMACS_SRC
}
alias emacs-reset-src=emacs-src-reset

emacs-src-get () {
    cd $EMACS_DIR
    git clone $EMACS_SRC
}
alias emacs-get-src=emacs-src-get

# autogen.sh
# configure --with-x-toolkit=no
# make
# sudo make install

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