[CentOS] Emacs 24 on CentOS 6.4

[Carson Chittom]

On Tue, 2013-11-19 at 09:45 +0300, Mihamina RKTMB wrote:
> On 11/19/2013 03:45 AM, Carson Chittom wrote:
> > After a brief effort, I didn't get it to work.
> >
> > [...]
> > So I again attempted to compile the emacs-24.2 SRPM, but apparently the
> > version of autoconf (2.63) in CentOS was too low (the emacs SRPM
> > expected 2.69), which caused the build to fail.
> 
> My personal opinion is you should change you distribution if you want 
> "bleeding edge" sofwtares.
> CentOS seems not fit this game.
> 

Emacs 24 is not "bleeding edge."  It is a released product.  Version
24.1 was released June 10, 2012.

Incidentally, it's not exactly friendly to new users who ask "How do I
do x?" to reply "Go away; you're not wanted."  Trust me to know my own
needs better than you do.