From: Johan Andersson <johan.rejeep@gmail.com>
To: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, "Kai Großjohann" <kai.grossjohann@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: Precompiled Emacs
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 09:26:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAB6RKMtHjj_bBaSsf_-MjTtLZJkTTydcjJuwk0L2StJO_oeOAw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87txfsfuaf.fsf@gmail.com>
> You don't say what distribution you are working with.
Any, that's the idea.
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> You don't say what distribution you are working with. Why not mess
> around with the distributed deb-srcs and make a custom .deb out of it.
>
> As you see below, you can choose one among the many different
> alternatives for emacs.
>
> kjambunathan@debian-6:/usr/bin$ ls -al | grep emacs
> 5792 Dec 11 2010 b2m.emacs23
> 82760 Dec 11 2010 ctags.emacs23
> 3309 Aug 7 2010 dh_installemacsen
> 34780 Dec 11 2010 ebrowse.emacs23
> 23 Aug 18 15:54 emacs -> /etc/alternatives/emacs
> 9 Aug 18 15:54 emacs23 -> emacs23-x
> 6583560 Dec 11 2010 emacs23-x
> 29 Aug 18 15:54 emacsclient -> /etc/alternatives/emacsclient
> 16816 Dec 11 2010 emacsclient.emacs23
> 81064 Dec 11 2010 etags.emacs23
> 7294 Dec 11 2010 grep-changelog.emacs23
> 3983 Dec 11 2010 rcs-checkin.emacs23
>
>
> Johan Andersson <johan.rejeep@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Well, the thing is that I don't want to install it there. I guess it's
> not
> > possible to compile Emacs, archive it, move to another machine and there
> > "make install" to the desired prefix?
> >
> > The purpose of this is to allow for fast installations and at the same
> time
> > allow for multiple Emacs version. So that will not work with
> > "/usr/local/emacs".
> >
> > I guess I could do:
> >
> > $ ./configure --prefix /usr/local/emacs-x.y.z --without-all --without-x
> > $ make bootstrap
> > $ tar ...
> >
> > ... move to another system
> >
> > $ make install
> >
> > That would mean a larger tar-file. But I guess I could "make install" on
> > the compile system and then tar "/usr/local/emacs-x.y.z".
> >
> > Still... seems a bit weird that this limitation exists. Maybe there's a
> > good reason for it?
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 10:43 PM, Kai Großjohann <kai.grossjohann@gmx.net
> >wrote:
> >
> >> Johan Andersson wrote:
> >> > I've read the instructions in INSTALL, which are very good. I tried
> and
> >> did
> >> > a build with:
> >> >
> >> > $ ./configure --prefix emacs-install --without-all --without-x
> >>
> >> The assumption is that the argument of --prefix is the fully qualified
> >> directory name where Emacs is installed. If you omit --prefix, it will
> >> use /usr/local.
> >>
> >> Conventionally, people are expected to use values such as
> >> /usr/local/emacs or /opt/emacs or something.
> >>
> >> Kai
> >>
> >>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-04 8:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-03 11:56 Precompiled Emacs Johan Andersson
2013-11-03 19:52 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-11-03 19:56 ` Jambunathan K
2013-11-03 19:59 ` Johan Andersson
2013-11-03 21:43 ` Kai Großjohann
2013-11-04 8:11 ` Johan Andersson
2013-11-04 8:25 ` Jambunathan K
2013-11-04 8:26 ` Johan Andersson [this message]
2013-11-04 11:46 ` Phillip Lord
2013-11-04 12:29 ` Johan Andersson
2013-11-04 13:21 ` Phillip Lord
2013-11-04 13:31 ` Johan Andersson
2013-11-04 14:39 ` Phillip Lord
2013-11-04 19:40 ` Johan Andersson
2013-11-05 12:35 ` Phillip Lord
2013-11-05 15:22 ` Johan Andersson
2013-11-06 10:18 ` Phillip Lord
2013-11-06 10:23 ` Johan Andersson
2013-11-06 13:01 ` Phillip Lord
2013-11-06 13:03 ` Johan Andersson
2013-12-07 15:25 ` Johan Andersson
2013-11-05 21:14 ` Kai Großjohann
2013-11-04 15:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-11-04 17:52 ` David Engster
2013-11-04 18:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-11-04 19:29 ` David Engster
2013-11-04 20:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-04 20:26 ` David Engster
2013-11-05 5:10 ` Glenn Morris
2013-11-05 19:26 ` David Engster
2013-11-04 20:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-11-04 20:24 ` David Engster
2013-11-04 13:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-11-04 14:46 ` Jambunathan K
2013-11-04 21:32 ` Kai Großjohann
2013-11-05 3:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-05 19:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-11-05 20:26 ` Glenn Morris
2013-11-06 10:24 ` Phillip Lord
2013-11-06 10:41 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.5200.1383508791.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-11-03 21:30 ` Dan Espen
[not found] <mailman.5190.1383504232.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-11-03 19:22 ` Carson Chittom
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