Re: any mirror/site where I can download Emacs snapshots?

[Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Oct 25 2015,Teemu Likonen wrote:

> Sivaram Neelakantan [2015-10-25 20:00:35+05:30] wrote:
>
>> Else I'll have to build from scratch I guess.
>
> That's a good choice and nothing to be afraid of. In Debian 8 it would
> go like this:
>
>
>     sudo apt-get install git build-essential libgtk2.0-dev \
>         libgnutls28-dev libfontconfig1-dev libotf-dev libm17n-dev \
>         libtiff5-dev libxpm-dev libncurses5-dev libpng12-dev \
>         librsvg2-dev libgif-dev imagemagick libgconf2-dev libasound2-dev \
>         texinfo liblockfile-dev libmagick++-6.q16-dev gnutls-bin \
>         autoconf automake
>
>     git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs.git
>
>     cd emacs
>
> 	./autogen.sh
>
> 	./configure --with-x-toolkit=gtk
>
>     make bootstrap
>
>     sudo make install
>

Thanks for the approach.  I have 2 questions.

I don't want to clone the whole repository, would a shallow clone also
work?

I use xfce and I believe I don't have Gnome libs installed I think.
 Would that require any changes to the configure option above?


Thanks once again


 sivaram
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