Compiling Emacs on Debian
Required Packages
To build Emacs on Debian fire a terminal and install the required packages, using apt-get
build-essential
xorg-dev
libgtk2.0-dev
libjpg-dev
libgif-dev
libtiff-dev
texinfo
libncurses5-dev
Alternativly use,
apt-get build-dep emacs23
Getting Latest Source
Choose your favarite CVS and get the latest source.
Git
git clone --depth 1 git://git.sv.gnu.org/emacs.git
CVS
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[email protected]:/sources/emacs co emacs
Either one will create a folder named emacs under the current directory. Switch to that directory.
cd emacs/
Building
First you need to run the configure script,
./autogen.sh
./configure --prefix=/path/to/some/directory/
Now you are ready to build.
make
make install
If your install location is not in your home directory use,
sudo make install
After make install you should have emacs installed under the directory you specified.