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commit b4a76491970d4ebaab7c7c8af1ccb10212c01d68
parent a6f72ff67bb6aec6686b84df45098bffb13f91d1
Author: Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 26 Jan 2025 17:09:58 +0100

Automate some Emacs installation tedium

Mostly to stop feeling guilty about not first-trying the ln
invocation.  Of course now I feel guilty about my half-assed prefix
parsing.

C'est la vie 🧘

Diffstat:
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.local/bin/emacs-install
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1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/.local/bin/emacs-install b/.local/bin/emacs-install
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+set -eux
+
+build=${EMACS_BUILD:-.}
+
+# Retrieve installation directory.  Many ways to do this; parsing
+# 'config.status --config' might be TRT in principle; for simplicity,
+# just:
+prefix=$(sed -n s/'^prefix *= *'//p "${build}"/Makefile)
+
+cd "${build}"
+make install
+
+[[ ${prefix} =~ ~/apps/(.*) ]] || exit
+target=${BASH_REMATCH[1]}
+
+cd ~/apps
+ln -fsvT "${target}" emacs