Re: Precompiled Emacs

[Kai Großjohann]

It may make sense to run Emacs from the directory it is compiled in
(without installation).  That might work without any fuss.

Kai


Phillip Lord wrote:
> 
> I didn't know the answer to this, so I tried it out. Sadly, the answer
> is yes, including in the make file as far as I can see. The only reason
> that Emacs normally works in this way is because it's already installed.
> 
> I tried doing ./configure like so...
> 
> ./configure --without-all --prefix=/tmp --exec-prefix=/tmp
> 
> with the hope that the built emacs could be transferred to another
> machine and then make installed, but that doesn't work (I don't quite
> know why). Besides you would now be dependent on the build tools which
> change over time as others have said.
> 
> For travis, I think the best option is to use a PPA and install into
> that. Emacs does support multiple minor version installations. But, you
> lose multiple platform testing. 
> 
> Other than that I am all out of ideas!
> 
> Phil
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Johan Andersson <johan.rejeep@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> The compile time is an issue on Travis.
>>
>> If I ./configure, make and re-tar like you say, will there not be any
>> hard-coded paths that will be incorrect on some other machine.
>> On Nov 4, 2013 3:39 PM, "Phillip Lord" <phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Okay, now I understand. This is a good aim, and would be a good thing to
>>> do. You are right about wanting to test between point releases -- in
>>> fact, for testing, this is more valuable than between major releases, I
>>> think.
>>>
>>> In a sense, I am not sure that I would be worried about speed of
>>> installation -- as this is largely useful for package developers, and
>>> it's a per emacs release cost (multiplied by the number of machines a
>>> developer has).
>>>
>>> However, given that this is for testing, from my own perspective, I
>>> would prefer not to mess around with my main installation; that is, I
>>> want my own version of Emacs and the rest of my system untouched. So,
>>> why not compile Emacs, and then just launch it from the directory in
>>> which it is built? To precompile, simply untar the distribution,
>>> ./configure, make, and then retar everything. This should be pretty
>>> platform independent, doesn't require root, and if you put everything in
>>> one place means a simple delete cleans everything up. It also has the
>>> advantage that the Emacs in question is relative clean (i.e. not patched
>>> by any downstream distributor) which is a useful test in itself.
> 
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