Notes on building Emacs

The commands you need to fetch the GNUemacs source and build it are:

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/sources/emacs co emacs
cd emacs
./configure
make

Building your own elisp into the image

To get your own elisp included into a dumped emacs, you need to:

  1. Load it from loadup.el
  2. Byte-compile it
  3. Include it in `shortlisp' in src/Makefile.in
  4. Recompile emacs
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John C. G. Sturdy
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