On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 06:27:23PM -0700, Andrew Gray wrote: > My name is Andrew, and I use Debian Lenny on an x86 machine. > [...] > The software in question is emacs22. Currently I have it compiled in my > home directory at ~/source/emacs/, where I run it directly out of the > src directory. I dare not "make install", or my apt install will be > permanently harmed and/or it won't work and I will be faced with a > crippled, non-running version of emacs on my system. [...] > > Is there anything I can do to ensure that if I did a make install it > wouldn't affect my current install or something like that? > while I've not built emacs from source before, the SOP for these sorts of things is to install local packages into /usr/local/ generally there are ./configure options you can set to change the install directory. Debian packages will not touch /usr/local, so you'll be good to go. YOu could even statically link program so that you won't have to worry about libraries upgrading underneath you. hth. A
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