Build emacs from source on Debian 9 (stretch)

build-emacs.sh

#!/bin/bash
# Builds emacs from source
# Tested on Debian 9 (stretch)


set -e

emacs_src=$HOME/src/emacs
emacs_dest=$HOME/.local
emacs_tag=emacs-26.2


if [ ! -d $emacs_src ]; then
   git clone --depth 1 https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/emacs.git $emacs_src
fi

cd $emacs_src
git fetch -t
git checkout  $emacs_tag

sudo apt install libc6-dev \
     libgif-dev            \
     libgnutls28-dev       \
     libgtk-3-dev          \
     libice-dev            \
     libjpeg-dev           \
     libmagickcore-dev     \
     libmagick++-dev       \
     libncurses5-dev       \
     libotf-dev            \
     libsm-dev             \
     libtiff5-dev          \
     libx11-dev            \
     libxext-dev           \
     libxi-dev             \
     libxmu-dev            \
     libxmuu-dev           \
     libxpm-dev            \
     libxrandr-dev         \
     libxt-dev             \
     libxtst-dev           \
     libxv-dev


./autogen.sh

./configure --prefix=$emacs_dest            \
            --with-gnutls                   \
            --with-modules                  \
            --with-x-toolkit=gtk3           \
            --without-makeinfo

make -j$(nproc)
make install