Build Gnu Emacs distribution on Ubuntu

build-emacs-dist.sh

#!/bin/sh

# Pre-requisites:
#
#  wget http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/emacs-24.2.tar.gz
#  sudo apt-get install build-essential xorg-dev libgtk-2.0-dev libjpeg-dev libpng12-dev libgif-dev libtiff4-dev libncurses5-dev
#
 
REQUIRED_PACKAGES="build-essential xorg-dev libgtk-2.0-dev libjpeg-dev libpng12-dev libgif-dev libtiff4-dev libncurses5-dev"

DIST_VERSION=$1
DIST_FILE=$1.tar.gz
BUILD_DIR=build-$1

missing_packages=0

for i in $REQUIRED_PACKAGES
do
    dpkg -s $i >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
    if [ $? != 0 ]
    then
        echo Missing required package: $i
        missing_packages=1
    fi
done

if [ $missing_packages = 1 ] 
then
    echo One or more prerequisute packages are missing.
    echo Please run: sudo apt-get install $REQUIRED_PACKAGES
    exit 0
fi


if [ "$DIST_VERSION" = "" ] || [ ! -f $DIST_FILE ]
then
    echo "Please specify an emacs distribution version for which a corresponding .tar.gz file exists."
    exit 1
fi

echo Unpacking and building $DIST_VERSION

rm -rf $BUILD_DIR
mkdir $BUILD_DIR
cd $BUILD_DIR
tar xzf ../$DIST_FILE
cd $DIST_VERSION
./configure --with-x-toolkit=gtk 
make