How to

First make sure you have all dependencies installed on your system.

on Ubuntu I do this for installing dependencies, your system may have different commands.

sudo apt-get build-essentials
sudo apt-get build-dep emacs23

usage

• Get this repo
• here is few ways to install Emacs.

./be head            # to install from head
./be -d head         # build head with for debugging (uses when emacs crashing)
./be -t latest       # build latest stable release
./be -t some_tag     # for eg some_tag may be emacs-24.1
./be -b some_branch  # build from some_branch (local or with remote tracking)

• run git commands in the repo directory

./be -g git some command

git some command will be run the repo directory.

For all the options, run

./be --help

Notes

• uses git commands to maintain sources instead of bzr
• uses mirror from repo.or.cz instead of official (to reduce load on GNU servers)
• Create bs.conf for customizing build. (like installation directory, configuration flags etc)
• post-build-hook runs after successful build (I use it for make symlinks)

License

GPL v3 or later