getting CVS Emacs 23

If you don't have CVS installed, install one:

$ sudo apt-get install cvs

Checkout the latest cvs version, the unicode-2 branch:

$ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/sources/emacs co -r emacs-unicode-2 emacs

Compile:

$ cd emacs
$ ./configure --enable-font-backend --with-xft --with-freetype --with-gtk
$ make bootstrap
$ make

Try to run src/emacs, if there is no problem,

$ sudo make install

That's all.

I've encounted such error during the ./configure:

checking for gtk+-2.0 >= 2.4 glib-2.0 >= 2.4... no
Package gtk+-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gtk+-2.0.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'gtk+-2.0' found
configure: error: Library requirements (gtk+-2.0 >= 2.4 glib-2.0 >= 2.4) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.

Solution:

$sudo apt-get install libidl-dev
$sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev

Now there's no conflict to use scim in Emacs under gnome.
However, if emacs is started with --enable-font-backend I still can't use scim.

If you are under Windows and so lazy as me, download the latest Emacs23 for win32 (binary and/or source) from here:
http://ntemacs.sourceforge.net/