Emacs nighly cvs snapshot with xft on Ubuntu Edgy
I wanted to try the latest cvs snapshot with XFT support, since i did not want to screw up more my workstation i have used packages instead of make install blindy.
Basically i have a script called ./build.sh
#!/bin/bash set -e d=$(date '+%Y%m%d') debpatch=20061218-1 mkdir -p cvs pushd cvs >/dev/null && { cvs -Q -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/sources/emacs co -r emacs-unicode-2 emacs } && popd >/dev/null mkdir -p build [[ -d build/emacs-${d} ]] && rm -rf build/emacs-${d} cp -al cvs/emacs build/emacs-${d} zcat patches/emacs-snapshot_${debpatch}.diff.gz|patch -p1 -d build/emacs-${d} cat patches/with-font.patch|patch --silent -p1 -d build/emacs-${d} pushd build/emacs-${d} >/dev/null && { chmod +x debian/rules dch -v "1:${d}-1" "New snapshot." dch "Build with xft." fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage -b } && popd >/dev/null
in patches/with-font.patch i have :
--- c/debian/rules.chmou 2007-01-21 23:21:09.486353750 +1100 +++ c/debian/rules 2007-01-21 23:21:13.914630500 +1100 @@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ # Emacs-gtk confflags emacs_gtk_confflags := ${confflags} emacs_gtk_confflags += --with-x=yes -emacs_gtk_confflags += --with-x-toolkit=gtk +emacs_gtk_confflags += --with-x-toolkit=gtk --enable-font-backend --with-xft # Emacs-nox confflags emacs_nox_confflags := ${confflags} --- c/src/emacs.c.chmou 2007-01-21 23:21:09.486353750 +1100 +++ c/src/emacs.c 2007-01-21 23:22:18.430662500 +1100 @@ -1408,10 +1408,10 @@ = argmatch (argv, argc, "-nl", "--no-loadup", 6, NULL, &skip_args); #ifdef USE_FONT_BACKEND - enable_font_backend = 0; - if (argmatch (argv, argc, "-enable-font-backend", "--enable-font-backend", - 4, NULL, &skip_args)) enable_font_backend = 1; + if (argmatch (argv, argc, "-disable-font-backend", "--disable-font-backend", + 4, NULL, &skip_args)) + enable_font_backend = 0; #endif /* USE_FONT_BACKEND */ #ifdef HAVE_X_WINDOWS @@ -1816,7 +1816,7 @@ { "-unibyte", "--unibyte", 81, 0 }, { "-no-multibyte", "--no-multibyte", 80, 0 }, { "-nl", "--no-loadup", 70, 0 }, - { "-enable-font-backend", "--enable-font-backend", 65, 0 }, + { "-disable-font-backend", "--disable-font-backend", 65, 0 }, /* -d must come last before the options handled in startup.el. */ { "-d", "--display", 60, 1 }, { "-display", 0, 60, 1 },
i have as well in patches/ the ubuntu (or could be debian) patch downloaded from the ubuntu (or debian archive) archive which is for ubuntu on
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/e/emacs-wiki
If there is a new version you will need to increase the version in build.sh to match the patch downloaded.
When running build.sh it should produce binary in build/* with xft enabled by default. Make sure to have all the dependencies (dpkg-buildpackages should tell you if there is unresovled one).
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Filed under: Emacs on January 21st, 2007
Where you refer to emacs-wiki at the end… did you mean one of the emacs-snapshot packages (and which one)?
Hi Zed, i do not understand your questions, but if you are asking where can you find the emacs-snapshot packages, i am explaining how to compile them nightly on ubuntu. Let me know if you have problems with it.
Cheers, Chmouel.
You refer to including a patch from, specifically, the emacs-wiki package. I was guessing you might have cut and pasted the wrong URL and you meant a patch from an emacs-snapshot package.
The right link, I suppose, was:
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/e/emacs-snapshot/
So the patch is:
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/e/emacs-snapshot/emacs-snapshot_20061218-1.diff.gz
Anyway (IMHO) isn’t a good idea to use that patch (ubuntu diff) against the *last* emacs’ snapshot from cvs.
That patch was wrote for the 20061218 snapshot and should be used _only_ against that source (emacs-snapshot_20061218.orig.tar.gz ), because the last snapshot might be very different and incompatible.
However thanks for posting that
Your method will eventually screw up. As gallows said, the patch will need to be updated at some point. I maintain a Ubuntu Edgy package of the Unicode branch; and about once per month I need to merge the changes from Debian, because the patches breaks. So, your mileage may vary.
I suggest you to use my packages, which you probably already know of (I recognize my little –disable-font-backend hack :P). I update it about once per week. The instructions, how to use it, are at: http://peadrop.com/blog/category/computers/emacs/
Hi Alexandre,
Yeah my method would probably screwd up but it is just a matter to resynchronize the debian/ directory from testing (or drop/merge patches not a big deal)…
No i did not look at all at the patches of your package i just did a blind grep -r and did a 2s hack (which actually does not compile theses days and i have dropped it since i do not really care about disabling the font backend).
Cheers, Chmouel.