From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Difficulties with elpa repository. Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 16:07:03 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20151125132923.GE2007@acm.fritz.box> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1448485658 16142 80.91.229.3 (25 Nov 2015 21:07:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 21:07:38 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 25 22:07:28 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1a1hHc-0004Bs-TQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 22:07:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47696 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a1hHe-0006QL-IC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 16:07:22 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36266) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a1hHb-0006QC-ES for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 16:07:20 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a1hHY-0004rP-9Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 16:07:19 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:55071) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a1hHY-0004rI-2U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 16:07:16 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a1hHT-0003ud-A2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 22:07:11 +0100 Original-Received: from modemcable022.171-203-24.mc.videotron.ca ([24.203.171.22]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 22:07:11 +0100 Original-Received: from monnier by modemcable022.171-203-24.mc.videotron.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 22:07:11 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: modemcable022.171-203-24.mc.videotron.ca User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:L3h+m8Epmi7QeuAWrBvXEM2m6VI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:195256 Archived-At: > This has been difficult. I followed the instructions to build elpa in > its README. Which ones? There re several, depending on what you want to do. In your case, the best option is to "install in place", I think (you don't want to create tarballs for distribution, since those aren't compiled anyway). So git clone .../elpa cd elpa make externals make Should do what you want. I rebuild in this way on a regular basis, so I'm pretty sure that it works to some extent, but there might be issues with the initial setup, or temporary problems. "make -k" lets you go past some temporary problems in specific packages. > Looking into packages/ace-window, I find a simple Makefile, so simple in Those Makefiles aren't used by the above recipe (which only uses .../elpa/GNUmakefile). Stefan