[CentOS] Emacs 24 on CentOS 6.4
Carson Chittom
carson at wistly.net
Tue Nov 19 12:41:58 UTC 2013
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.
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