From: Johan Andersson <johan.rejeep@gmail.com>
To: Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Precompiled Emacs
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 13:29:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAB6RKMuJG53GFVbfukvQfF1_dxEyWQL1t9EOT7SrTyPkE=Ez9A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y554e6ei.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk>
I don't want to use a package manager, because they do not support enough
versions and there is usually no way of switching between different
versions.
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Phillip Lord
<phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk>wrote:
>
> But you don't say why!
>
> If you want to build a prebuilt binary which will install in a sane way,
> then building something for the appropriate package management system
> seems the sensible way. Your only stated aim (fast installations,
> multiple versions) is fulfilled with this solution.
>
> But, emacs packages already exist for most distributions. So using one
> of these makes most sense. Unless you want to extend and modify emacs in
> some way; but if you want to do this, then, probably package.el will be
> enough.
>
> Phil
>
>
>
>
> Johan Andersson <johan.rejeep@gmail.com> writes:
>
> >> 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
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
> --
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-04 12:29 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
2013-11-04 11:46 ` Phillip Lord
2013-11-04 12:29 ` Johan Andersson [this message]
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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