Building Emacs 23.1 from rawhide for F11

Braden McDaniel braden at endoframe.com
Tue Aug 11 21:21:30 UTC 2009


On 8/11/09 3:50 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I have been using the emacs build in the rawhide repositories on my F11
> system. (version 23.0.93.1) Now since emacs 23.1 is out, I would like to
> use that. But trying to install the rawhide build pulls in glibc as a
> dependency from rawhide. Since its a crucial library I didn't go ahead
> with it and decided to build from the srpm.
>
> 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?

There's one in updates-testing for F11.  You could just grab that.

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