[solved] Re: Error compiling Emacs cvs at `make bootstrap'

[Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>]

Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> writes:

> Sven Joachim wrote:
>> Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>> > With Debian 8, Sid: I'm trying to compile and install Emacs cvs
>> 
>> Why the heck do you want to that?
>
> Sven, That sounds so adversarial.
>
>> Emacs development switched away from CVS _five years_ ago.

I didn't know, in fact haven't updated my Emacs box for exactly five years.


>> I suspect the Emacs 23.1.90 documentation might not be quite compatible
>> with Texinfo 5, but you will likely run into more problems.


> Of course emacs switched to bzr.  But then just recently they switched
> again and are now using git.  If you want to build current emacs from
> sources then this is how to get the current sources.
>
>   git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs.git
>
> You can browse the current sources here:
>
>   http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
>
> Bob


Thanks!  I did (see: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsDevelopmentSources and
http://emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsFromGit):

 # aptitude install gcc git
 # aptitude build-dep emacs24
 $ cd
 $ cd tmp
 $ git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs.git
 $ cd emacs
 $ ./autogen.sh
 $ ./configure
 $ make
 # make install
 $ make clean
 $ make distclean

Thanks,

Rodolfo