November 10, 2011

Building Emacs 24 on Ubuntu 11.10

You can install emacs24 from the Damien Cassou's repository for emacs-snapshot packages. However, I wanted to try building emacs 24 myself from source. I started off from instructions here and had to install a few additional packages to get all the build dependencies.

# Get emacs source
sudo apt-get install bzr
bzr branch bzr://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/emacs/trunk emacs

# some dependencies
sudo apt-get install libgtk-3-dev
sudo apt-get install libgif-dev libxpm-dev

# for makeinfo
sudo apt-get install texinfo

# configure complains about missing libtiff
sudo apt-get install libtiff4-dev

# configure and build (WARNING: This is to build with gtk3 as suggested in the original post)
cd emacs
./autogen.sh
./configure --with-x-toolkit=gtk3
make
src/emacs

And hurray !
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3 comments:

  1. sirmacikNovember 20, 2011 at 4:14 PM

    You don't have to download whole emacs repository to use the latest branch... It's worth to take a look at archlinux's AUR package for emacs-bzr. With the following line you get only what you need witch is much faster way to start using it. (;

    bzr co --lightweight -v bzr://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/emacs/trunk emacs

    You van find whole PKGBUILD here: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/em/emacs-bzr/PKGBUILD

    Regards, Marcin

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  2. yamamushiJanuary 7, 2012 at 2:25 PM

    You should add the ./autogen.sh step to your post :)

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  3. AnonymousMay 1, 2012 at 5:22 PM

    An alternative to building yourself is using the following:

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cassou/emacs
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install emacs-snapshot

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