Mon, 24 Sep 2007
How to compile cvs emacs in a fresh ubuntu 7.04 installation
Once you've installed ubuntu 7.04 the very next thing you need to do is compile cvs emacs, right? Of course. Here's how.
First, to compile programs you need various development libraries (and you may want to grab some optional goodies):
sudo apt-get install build-essential libc6-dev libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin libgtk2.0-common libgtk2.0-dev libjpeg62-dev libjpeg62 libncurses5-dev libpng12-dev libpng12-0 libsm-dev libtiff4-dev libtiff4 libx11-dev libxext-dev libxmu-dev libxmu-headers libxpm-dev libxt-dev xlibs-dev libungif4-dev flashplugin-nonfree gnomesword sword-language-pack-en sword-text-web
get cvs so you can checkout emacs
mkdir ~/software cd ~/software wget http://ftp.gnu.org/non-gnu/cvs/source/stable/1.11.22/cvs-1.11.22.tar.gz tar xvf cvs-1.11.22.tar.gz cd cvs-1.11.22/ ./configure make sudo make install
get texinfo so you'll have documentation in emacs
cd ~/software wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.11.tar.gz tar xvf texinfo-4.11.tar.gz cd texinfo-4.11/ ./configure make sudo make install
checkout the latest emacs and compile (I hate the gui scrollbars)
cd ~/software cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/sources/emacs co emacs cd emacs ./configure --without-toolkit-scroll-bars make bootstrap
I run emacs from its src dir by putting this in my ~/.bashrc:
PATH=/home/billw/software/emacs/src:$PATH
Note that you should check gnu.org for the latest versions of cvs and texinfo. The entire process from inserting the ubuntu install cd in a bare wiped machine to launching a freshly-compiled emacs took 45 minutes this evening.
posted by Bill White at 23:44 | permalink | email me | | |
