[indiana-discuss] Emacs on Indiana

[Richard Elling]

Glenn Lagasse wrote:
> * Praveen Kumar (praveen at sun.com) wrote:
>   
>> Hello -
>>
>> I am trying out Indiana preview 2. What would be the best way to get GNU 
>> Emacs on Indiana? I am not sure if it is available in the standard 
>> repository. I was trying to install the development tools so that I can 
>> compile it myself. However 'pkg search' doesn't work as I expect it to 
>> be. I am a bit confused on how I would figure out the package name that 
>> I have to install. For instance, when I did 'pkg search automake', it 
>> doesn't show anything. Is there a metapackage or something like that 
>> available to install all the GNU development tools using pkg?
>>     
>
> Well, if you want a pre-compiled version there's blastwave:
>
> $ pfexec pkgadd -d http://www.blastwave.org/pkg_get.pkg
> $ pfexec /opt/csw/bin/pkg-get -i emacs
>
> If you want to roll your own:
>
> $ pfexec pkg install SUNWgcc
> $ pfexec pkg install SUNWgccruntime
> $ pfexec pkg install SUNWarc
> $ pfexec pkg install SUNWbinutils
>
> $ pfexec pkg install FSWxorg-headers
> $ pfexec pkg install SUNWhea
> $ pfexec pkg install SUNWsfwhea
>
> There isn't a metacluster for installing GNU development tools.  I
> suppose one could be created fairly easily.
>   

The Sun Studio release also has at least one precompiled
version, xemacs.  It is included in SXCE/SXDE isos.
I'll presume that the installer works in Indiana... I haven't
tried it, yet.
 -- richard