On Sat, Nov 19 2016, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote: > This is an answer to the discussion we were having on irc the other day about easily installing the emacs front-end for a single user. > > For users of package.el supporting emacs (iirc, emacs 24.1+), you can > > 1) make elpa > 2) From within emacs M-x package-install-file <return> the-tarball-produced-in-step-1 <return> > > That's it, no modifications of paths etc... required. > > [PATCH 1/2] build: Move variable definitions to Makefile.global > > This looks big, but it's just code movement. Of course with makefiles > moving things around is not without peril, so test builds in various > corner cases (e.g. not current Debian) would be a good idea Series LGTM (especially Makefile.global) Worked without hiccups on SL6.2) Tomi