[nzlug] Installing Emacs from CVS

[Toby Collett]

I cant comment on emacs specifically, but in general if you build from 
src the install path defaults to /usr/local instead of /usr allowing the 
built and distribution packages to exist at the same time. in general 
the default path environment will pick up executables in /usr/local/bin 
before /usr/bin making the newly built version the default. You may need 
to add /usr/local/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf or equivalent and run ldconfig 
before the libraries will link correctly.

Toby

Patrick Connolly wrote:
> 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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