Installing Emacs
- refer to the INSTALL file in the root of the emacs repo for an overview of install options
- releases are hosted at https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/
Releases
For sanity checking, it's helpful to have access to older versions of Emacs. We can download and verify a version like this:
#aria2c https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-keyring.gpg -d /tmp/ #gpg --import /tmp/gnu-keyring.gpg VERSION=24.2 aria2c https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/emacs-${VERSION}.tar.xz.sig -d /tmp/ gpg --verify /tmp/emacs-${VERSION}.tar.xz.sig aria2c https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/emacs-${VERSION}.tar.xz -d /tmp/ tar -xf emacs-${VERSION}.tar.xz
Building from Source
First, clone the repo:
git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/emacs.git /tmp/emacs
Once the source is in hand, I stronly recommend making a separate build directory and calling the configure script from there.
mkdir /tmp/emacs-build && cd /tmp/emacs-build ../emacs/configure --with-mailutils --with-imagemagick --with-x-toolkit=athena --without-pop --without-sound --with-json --enable-link-time-optimization --with-native-compilation NATIVE_FULL_AOT=1 make -j8 # test the build with './src/emacs' (location of output binary) # install emacs binaries on current system make install
The configure
script takes a bunch of different flags that
customize the build, and generate a build-specific Makefile.
The next line compiles the source. Install with make install
and
you're done! A custom Emacs binary with all the fixings has just
been installed for your current user. :)
Here are some of the other configuration flags worth investigating:
- –without-all
- –with-x-toolkit=no
- –without-x
- –without-dbus –without-gconf –without-gsettings