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:

mkdir ~/myapps
mkdir sources && cd sources
wget http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/emacs-24.2.tar.gz
tar -xvvf emacs-24.2.tar.gz
cd emacs-24.2
./configure --prefix=/home/droidzone/myapps --with-x-toolkit=no --with-xpm=no --with-jpeg=no --with-gif=no --with-tiff=no --with-png=no
make ; make install
export PATH=$PATH:/home/droidzone/myapps/emacs/bin

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:

configure: error: The required function `tputs' was not found in any library.
These libraries were tried: libncurses, libterminfo, libtermcap, libcurses.
Please try installing whichever of these libraries is most appropriate
for your system, together with its header files.
For example, a libncurses-dev(el) or similar package.[/code]
This is because ncurses library is missing in the Goo server.

So, first download GNU Ncurses and install it:
cd ~/sources
wget http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ncurses/ncurses-5.9.tar.gz
tar -xvvf ncurses-5.9.tar.gz
cd ncurses-5.9
./configure --prefix=/home/droidzone/myapps
make
make install
After this, compile Emacs setting the env flag properly to the location where you installed Ncurses
cd ../emacs-24.2
env LDFLAGS=-L/home/droidzone/myapps/lib ./configure --prefix=/home/droidzone/myapps --with-x-toolkit=no --with-xpm=no --with-jpeg=no --with-gif=no --with-tiff=no --with-png=no
make
make install
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

[email protected]:~/temp/pkg-config-0.27.1$ c
Now, pkg-config configures fine.
Glibc..
configure error
configure: error: linker with -z relro support required