Re: Help with installing Emacs 23(CVS) to a custom path

[Suvayu Ali]

On Thursday 21 January 2010 07:53 AM, Herbert J. Skuhra wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:35 PM, Suvayu Ali
> <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>  wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I was trying to install Emacs 23 from CVS on a Scientific Linux 4 machine
> > and ran into some problems. I am limited with write permissions to only my
> > home area and the /scratchdisk. So I checked out the CVS tree in a directory
> > in /scratchdisk and built emacs using
>
> Your question about building emacs was already answered.
>
> One side note: the cvs tree is obsolete. The project now uses Bazaar.
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/#Obtaining

Thanks for pointing this out Herbert, my problem however is I don't have 
access to bazaar on my machine. Hence I chose the CVS tree. I see that 
the Savannah project page mentions using rsync or scp, but I don't know 
how I can do an anonymous checkout with either of them.

Thanks for any pointers.

> -Herbert

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