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jb

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From: Florida

Registered: 2006-06-22

Posts: 466

[solved]Error Compiling emacs

While trying to compile emacs, I continually ran into this problem:

Fail Log (output of makepkg)

Should I bug report, or is this a personal problem?

Last edited by jb (2008-08-01 00:14:10)

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Stefan Husmann

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-08-07

Posts: 1,391

Re: [solved]Error Compiling emacs

Do not try running makepkg as root. There is a warning at the very beginning of your logfile. Also you build from /var/abs directly. Try moving the stuff from /var/abs/extra/emacs and the big tarball to a place where your user has read/write access and try again. Perhaps you have to do a

chown <youruser>:users emacs

before (as root, from the directory above the one you put the files in).

BTW: as I wrote this, emacs compiled fine for me on i686

Do you depend on emacs 22.2? If not, try my package emacs-otf in AUR or emacs-cvs from community.

jb

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From: Florida

Registered: 2006-06-22

Posts: 466

Re: [solved]Error Compiling emacs

Well, I was just about to post how compiling this as a regular user also caused a fail, only at a different location, but then I noticed something odd about my account.  It seems that I never added myself to the users group... whoops.  So now I've got everything working.  The purpose behind all of this was from trying to compile emacs --without-x. 

Marking as resolved.

Thanks.

Last edited by jb (2008-07-31 23:08:28)

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Stefan Husmann

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-08-07

Posts: 1,391

Re: [solved]Error Compiling emacs

emacs-nox is in AUR.