Installing Emacs 24 from source in FreeBSD

I have installed emacs 24 from bzr in FreeBSD. Here it is goes.

1. Install bzr from portage.
• %cd /usr/ports/devel/bzrtools && sudo make install clean
2. Install depended software from default emacs portage.
• %cd /usr/ports/editor/emacs && sudo make
3. Create emacs checkout director for bzr checkout
• %mkdir ~/gnmk_emacs
4. Pull the updated branch from emacs source
• %cd ~/gnmk_emacs
• %bzr branch http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/emacs/trunk emacs_trunk
5. Configure
• %cd ~/gnmk_emacs/emacs_trunk/
• %./Configure --prefix=~/gnmk_emacs/bsd_emacs/
6. Make bootstrap to generate all lisp
• %gmake bootstrap
7. Finally Install
• %gmake install
8. Run 
• %~/gnmk_emacs/bsd_emacs/bin/emacs

   

Hardware beep on/off in FreeBSD

To enable or disable hardware beep in FreeBSD operating systems use MIB hw.syscons.bell. Type the following command to disable for current session:

$sudo sysctl hw.syscons.bell=0

To keep the setting permanently use following in your sysctl.conf file

#echo "hw.syscons.bell=0" >> /etc/sysctl.conf

FreeBSD 8.2

After reading this http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/01 , I am planning to give a chance to FreeBSD.

Let see how it goes and how long i will stay with this.