[Pythonmac-SIG] a beginner's list

[Bill Janssen]

It's very simple to build Emacs from scratch for X11 on the Mac.

I follow the instructions posted by Andrew Choi at 
http://members.shaw.ca/akochoi-emacs/stories/obtaining-and-building.html.

Basically, make sure you have the developer tools installed, then:

1)  Install GNU texinfo:

$ cd /tmp
$ curl -O ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.8.tar.gz
$ tar zxf texinfo-4.8.tar.gz
$ cd texinfo-4.8
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

2)  Check out, build, and install Emacs:

$ cd /tmp
$ export CVS_RSH="ssh"
$ cvs -z3 -d:ext:anoncvs at savannah.gnu.org:/cvsroot/emacs co emacs
$ cd emacs
$ ./configure --with-x --without-carbon --without-x-toolkit
$ make bootstrap
$ sudo make install

I add the --without-x-toolkit because I like it that way, not because
it's necessary.

It's a great antique environment for doing Python programming and
running Python shells.  M-x pdb.

Bill