emacs24

Manual tests

There are some upstream tests in test/manual/ that have to be run manually. Of course, they expect Emacs to be built, but debian/rules does out-of-tree builds to handle the separate binary packages. Doing an in-tree build is not completely straightforward because of the DFSG split: upstream’s build system expects to find doc/Makefile.in, but that’s in a different source package.

Here is a recipe to do an upstream, in-tree build on stretch. You’ll probably need to replace /home/spwhitton/src/lts/emacs. I obtained this by doing debian/rules build and SIGINT’ing it once got as far as compiling C code. Then I extracted these commands from the output.:

quilt push -a
./autogen.sh
cp -a /usr/share/misc/config.guess .
cp -a /usr/share/misc/config.sub .
CFLAGS="-g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/home/spwhitton/src/lts/emacs=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wall -fno-PIE" CPPFLAGS="-Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-z,relro -no-pie" REL_ALLOC=no ./configure --build x86_64-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --localstatedir=/var/lib --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-pop=yes --enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs24:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/24.5/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/24.5/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp --without-gnutls --build x86_64-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --localstatedir=/var/lib --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-pop=yes --enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs24:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/24.5/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/24.5/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp --without-gnutls  --with-x=no --without-gconf --without-gsettings
make -j1

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