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Created July 31, 2017 18:07
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configure.sh
make
./configure --prefix=/home/<yourhome>/ --with-x-toolkit=no --with-xpm=no --with-jpeg=no --with-png=no --with-gif=no --with-tiff=no
make install
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Commenting here as this is a top search engine hit; the configure suggestion here is useful.

Use ./autogen.sh as the first step instead of make:

./autogen.sh
./configure --prefix=$HOME --with-x-toolkit=no --with-xpm=no --with-jpeg=no --with-png=no --with-gif=no --with-tiff=no
make
make install

Running make first can work because make determines that it should run ./autogen.sh, but it will also run configure and start building on its own (resulting in "wasted" CPU cycles as emacs will be rebuilt after the next ./configure). Here's what make says if run before ./autogen.sh:

There seems to be no "configure" file in this directory.
Running ./autogen.sh ...
./autogen.sh
... [snip] ...
There seems to be no Makefile in this directory.
Running ./configure ...

The Emacs README has detail on 'autogen.sh':

The shell script 'autogen.sh' generates 'configure' and other files by running Autoconf (which in turn uses GNU m4), and configures files in the .git subdirectory if you are using Git. If you want to use it, you will need to install recent versions of these build tools. This should be needed only if you edit files like 'configure.ac' that specify Emacs's autobuild procedure.

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