This is for the console only (no graphical xwindows) version. Installs into /opt/emacs253 so can run side-by-side with system emacs.

• # Download emacs tarball & untar

• ./configure --prefix=/opt/emacs253 --with-gif=no --with-tiff=no --with-x-toolkit=no \
  
  --with-xpm=no --with-jpeg=no --with-png=no

• # install any dependencies & build
  
  make
  
  make DESTDIR=/tmp/emacs install

• # Install fpm (gem install fpm) to build package
  
  fpm -s dir -t rpm -C /tmp/emacs --name emacs25 --version 25.3 --iteration 1 --description "emacs 25.3"

• rm -rf /tmp/emacs