[CentOS] Emacs 24 on CentOS 6.4

Sun Nov 17 20:50:30 UTC 2013
Carson Chittom <carson at wistly.net>

On Sun, 2013-11-17 at 14:37 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 14:12:33 -0600
> Carson Chittom wrote:
> 
> > While I could, of course, just do the ./configure && make && make
> > install dance, I don't like having software installed that's not in the
> > packaging system.  I'd appreciate any pointer to a prepackaged Emacs 24,
> > or failing that, a good tutorial on how to package software correctly
> > for CentOS.
> 
> In some/several cases you can simply recompile the Fedora srpm on your Centos system.
> 
> I don't know about Emacs, (don't use it myself) but there's nothing lost by trying it.

That's a good idea, which I should have thought of.  :)

I'll give it a whirl and report back for the archives.