Building Emacs 23.1 from rawhide for F11

[Suvayu Ali]

On Tuesday 11 August 2009 12:58 PM, Armin Moradi wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Suvayu Ali<fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> So far I have downloaded the srpm for the rawhide emacs build however when I
>> use `sudo yum-builddep --enablerepo=rawhide emacs' yum asks to install the
>> build dependencies from rawhide. I understand that must be because the
>> rawhide build for emacs was built against them. So what would be the ideal
>> way to go ahead with this? Should I just download the corresponding packages
>> from the F11 repos? Would that work or will I run into problems?
>
> use mock.  (yum install mock).  Set it up, and after you download the srpm do:
>
> $ mock -r fedora-11-arch ~/rpmbuild/SRPMS/emacs-xxxxx
>
> arch could be i386 (for i586) and x86_64
>
> Then you can find the packages in /var/lib/mock/xxx
>
> mock setup: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Projects/Mock
>

Can't thank you enough Armin. I will try that out and report back how it 
goes. :)

-- 
Suvayu

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