On Sun, 2013-11-17 at 14:50 -0600, Carson Chittom wrote: > 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. After a brief effort, I didn't get it to work. I downloaded the emacs-24.2 SRPM from Fedora 19. Trying to compile it with rpmbuild gave me several errors about missing dependencies. I was able to install nearly all of the ones complained about from the CentOS repositories. The only one left was liblockfile-devel, so I downloaded the liblockfile SRPM and compiled and installed it and its -devel without error. 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. If anyone's curious, I have placed a log of the build at http://www.wistly.net/emacs-build.log