Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com> writes: > Incidentally, while on the issue of debian emacs startup, I have the > following snippet in my .emacs file for hooking my non-debian emacs > into the debian emacs package system: > > ;; Debian stuff > (unless (boundp 'debian-emacs-flavor) > (load "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/debian-startup") > (debian-startup 'emacs22) > (debian-startup 'emacs22)) > > ["emacs22" because there is no emacs23 in debian yet] Here's my setup. The first attachment is a script to run in the emacs source directory as root after doing "./configure ; make". It depends on a fake emacs-snapshot package built using equivs. The second attachment is an init file that handles all the Debian stuff, including a rewrite of `debian-run-directories' to make its modifications to load-path less intrusive.
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#!/bin/bash
#
# Restore custom-compiled emacs
if test ! -d ./lisp/emacs-lisp; then
echo "You are not in the right directory."
exit 1
fi
if test "$UID" != "0"; then
echo "You must be root to run this."
exit 1
fi
echo "Stage 1: Installing emacs ..."
make install
echo "Stage 2: Install fake emacs-snapshot package ..."
dpkg -i ../../emacs-snapshot_1.0_i386.deb
echo "Done."
echo "Stage 2: Making symlinks ..."
latest=$(cd /usr/local/share/emacs && echo 23.* | tr ' ' '\n' | sort \
| tail -n 1)
ln -sf /usr/local/share/emacs/$latest /usr/share/emacs-snapshot
ln -sf /usr/local/bin/emacs /usr/bin/emacs-snapshot
mkdir -p /etc/emacs-snapshot/site-start.d
echo "Done."
echo "Stage 3: Installing emacs-snapshot flavor ..."
echo >> /var/lib/emacsen-common/installed-flavors
echo emacs-snapshot >> /var/lib/emacsen-common/installed-flavors
/usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install emacs-snapshot
echo "Done."
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debian-init.el
Description: application/emacs-lisp
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