Today in our series “How To Build Emacs For Fun And No Profit Whatsoever“, we’ve reached FreeBSD.
Building Emacs here is very straightforward. First, as root, install the compilation dependencies like this:
pkg update -f pkg install -y autoconf git gmake pkgconf texinfo pkg install -y `pkg rquery %dn emacs-devel`
Then, as a non-root user, do:
git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/emacs.git cd emacs gmake -j4 ./src/emacs
There! Almost as easy as on Debian!
You’re now ready to help fix Emacs bugs on FreeBSD I mean use Emacs:
