Install MELPA

M-x package-refresh
M-x package-install test-simple

• autoconf and autoreconf to build the configure script. Usually autoreconf comes with an “autoconf” package
• GNU Make — or, even better, remake

If you are feeling lucky, you can try running the install script from the github repository:

  $ bash < <( curl https://raw.github.com/rocky/emacs-test-simple/master/install-from-git.sh )

This installs the sources into the default shared emacs libraries as determined by autoconf’s configure script. As such you may need root or sudo permission to put files there. See Install-shell-script for more information about the install-from-git.sh script

If you want to change add options to configure such as changing where to install the emacs code, see the full instructions below.

Installing is:

git clone http://github.com/rocky/${pkg}.git
     (cd $pkg && \
         sh ./autogen.sh && ./configure && make && make check && sudo make install
     )

As with the one-step approach above ./configure will install into the shared emacs libary, and that may require special permission such as being root or having sudo permission. To change this, you can supply the —prefix option to configure. See configure —help for help on how to influence the configure script.