Re: wip/emacs-git make install

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%gatalith.at@localhost>]

On Thu, Sep 19, 2024 at 05:31:03AM +0000, Van Ly wrote:
> 
> Thomas Klausner <wiz%gatalith.at@localhost> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 03:18:56PM +0000, Van Ly wrote:
> >> The above from below is a show stopper.
> >
> > My best guess is that you didn't update your pkgsrc tree completely to
> > HEAD and since this now using the git "tool" and your mk/ does not
> > provide it, it breaks.
> 
> I have these two files downloaded
> 
>  emacs-30.0.91.tar.xz
>  emacs-30.0.91.tar.xz.sig
> 
> is it possible to easily retarget pkgsrc/editors/emacs to unpack and
> build that?

Yes, the pkgsrc guide (pkgsrc/doc/pkgsrc.txt) explains how to make
packages, and converting e.g. emacs30 to that will probably be quite
easy, especially when you take hints from wip/emacs-git.

> The pkgsrc tree I'd like to keep at the tagged quarterly release.

wip always targets pkgsrc-current, not the stable release.
 Thomas