Re: Difficulties with elpa repository.

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Stefan.

On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 04:07:03PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > This has been difficult.  I followed the instructions to build elpa in
> > its README.

> Which ones?  There re several, depending on what you want to do.
> In your case, the best option is to "install in place", I think (you
> don't want to create tarballs for distribution, since those aren't
> compiled anyway).  So

>    git clone .../elpa
>    cd elpa
>    make externals
>    make

> Should do what you want.

Thanks, I will try that.

> I rebuild in this way on a regular basis, so I'm pretty sure that it
> works to some extent, but there might be issues with the initial
> setup, or temporary problems.  "make -k" lets you go past some
> temporary problems in specific packages.

If needed, I'll try that too.

[ .... ]

>         Stefan

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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).