provide elpa packages

[Tomi Ollila]

On Fri, Nov 25 2016, Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila at iki.fi> wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 19 2016, David Bremner <david at tethera.net> wrote:
>
>> This is an answer to the discussion we were having on irc the other day about easily installing the emacs front-end for a single user.
>>
>> For users of package.el supporting emacs (iirc, emacs 24.1+), you can
>>
>> 1) make elpa
>> 2) From within emacs M-x package-install-file <return> the-tarball-produced-in-step-1 <return>
>>
>> That's it, no modifications of paths etc... required.
>>
>> [PATCH 1/2] build: Move variable definitions to Makefile.global
>>
>> This looks big, but it's just code movement. Of course with makefiles
>> moving things around is not without peril, so test builds in various
>> corner cases (e.g. not current Debian) would be a good idea
>
> Series LGTM (especially Makefile.global)

(you could amend copying Makefile.global for out of tree builds -- or use
include $(srcdir)/Makefile.global)

>
> Worked without hiccups on SL6.2)
>
> Tomi