emacs on USB stick needed

CollieJim · 05-06-2011, 09:04 AM

I need a portable emacs to use for troubleshooting GNU/linux machines. A USB stick is the preferred medium as some of the computers I will work with may not have an optical drive.

Will I need separate versions for 32- and 64-bit systems?

TIA
Jim

EricTRA · 05-07-2011, 01:22 AM

Hello,

Here's a link to a howto for Windows version of Emacs. Maybe you can get it to work on Linux.

Kind regards,

Eric

CollieJim · 05-07-2011, 09:30 AM

Thanks.

I had a look, and have tried, but not much luck.
The EMACSLOADPATH specifies where to find emacs-specific (elisp) stuff and I've set that up, but emacs wants libpng14.so.14 and libgif.so.4.

I put them on the USB stick as well, and set EMACSPATH to point to them, but emacs does not see them and aborts.

If I can find an old copy of emacs-19.34 (the last good one) I'll try that. I don't much like what they have done with the shell in recent versions...

EricTRA · 05-07-2011, 09:34 AM

Hi,

Too bad it didn't work. It was worth a try though, right?

Kind regards,

Eric

CollieJim · 05-08-2011, 08:03 AM

Yes. I learned a bit trying, but I'm not sure how much I will remember...
I think the secret is static linking, which requires static libraries.
Perhaps another day.