Compile and install emacs in a non root Linux environment (XDA and Goo.im)

It’s a Non X, non root environment, typically the XDA build server, you can install and use emacs by the following commands:

Compiling and using emacs on Goo.im requires a few additional steps.

If you try configuring emacs directly, you will encounter an error stating that:

This is because ncurses library is missing in the Goo server.

So, first download GNU Ncurses and install it:

After this, compile Emacs setting the env flag properly to the location where you installed Ncurses

It is possible to achieve the same by setting
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/droidzone/myapps/lib before compiling.

Compiling mc on Goo

checking for pkg-config… no
*** The pkg-config script could not be found. Make sure it is
*** in your path, or set the PKG_CONFIG environment variable
*** to the full path to pkg-config.
*** Or see http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig to get pkg-config.
checking for glib-config… no
checking for glib12-config… no
checking for glib-config… no
checking for GLIB – version >= 1.2.6… no
*** The glib-config script installed by GLIB could not be found
*** If GLIB was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
*** your path, or set the GLIB_CONFIG environment variable to the
*** full path to glib-config.
configure: error: Test for glib failed.
GNU Midnight Commander requires glib 1.2.6 or above.

On trying to configure pkg-config:

./configure –prefix=/home/droidzone/myapps

./configure: line 13557: –exists: command not found
configure: error: pkg-config and “glib-2.0 >= 2.16″ not found, please set GLIB_CFLAGS and GLIB_LIBS to the correct values or pass –with-internal-glib to configure
droidzone@gooey:~/temp/pkg-config-0.27.1$ c

Now, pkg-config configures fine.

Glibc..

configure error

configure: error: linker with -z relro support required