[nzlug] Installing Emacs from CVS

[Patrick Connolly]

Somewhere about Thu, 29-Nov-2007 at 10:13PM +1100 (give or take),
Daniel Pittman wrote:


|> There is a branch of Emacs under development that bridges this gap:
|> 
|>     http://emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/XftGnuEmacs

That link refers to a use of cvs to source the code, to wit
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous at cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/sources/emacs co -r emacs-unicode-2 emacs


The command produces about 100 Mb of files with an INSTALL file of about
1000 lines.  Without a thorough reading of every bit of it, I can't be
sure, but it doesn't seem to say what to do if Emacs has already been
installed from an RPM or deb.  

Would it be assumed that any existing installations had been removed?
I'm using Emacs to read these files, so I'm not keen on deleting Emacs
yet.  I'm fairly sure removing Emacs would incur some conflicts.

Has anyone ever tried to install such a thing over the top of
something already installed?  If it did succeed, would it cohabit
all the other things installed from RPMs (or debs)?

TIA

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