Building emacs 24 on Ubuntu 13.10, 14.04, and 15.10

1. sudo apt-get install autoconf texinfo libtiff4-dev libgif-dev libxpm-dev libncurses-dev
2. git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs.git
3. cd emacs/
4. ./autogen.sh
5. Not interested in makeinfo at this time, so
• ./configure --without-makeinfo
6. make
7. sudo make install

Updates for 14.04

For step 5, use ./configure --without-makeinfo --with-tiff=no

Updates for 15.10

For step 1, use sudo apt-get install autoconf texinfo libtiff-dev libxpm-dev libncurses-dev libgif-dev libjpeg-dev libgtk2.0-dev