From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Should libXt-devel be required to build Emacs? Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 11:06:24 +0100 Message-ID: <458E5120.30400@swipnet.se> References: <45895E29.4050203@swipnet.se> <87y7p2zfi7.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <8764c5uv7s.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87vek4dcpi.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <20061223204322.GA5902@printf.se> <458DA9C5.9090101@swipnet.se> <20061223222506.GA7730@printf.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1166954864 19131 80.91.229.10 (24 Dec 2006 10:07:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 10:07:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , emacs-devel@gnu.org, sdl.web@gmail.com, Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 24 11:07:41 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GyQGY-0004N6-6R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Dec 2006 11:07:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GyQGX-0001be-Km for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Dec 2006 05:07:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GyQGB-0001XI-FF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Dec 2006 05:07:15 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GyQG8-0001S4-MW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Dec 2006 05:07:13 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GyQG8-0001Rt-HS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Dec 2006 05:07:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [81.228.9.184] (helo=av8-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GyQG6-0007V6-U7; Sun, 24 Dec 2006 05:07:11 -0500 Original-Received: by av8-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 0F89F3807D; Sun, 24 Dec 2006 11:07:10 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp3-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (smtp3-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net [81.228.9.101]) by av8-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEB073804F; Sun, 24 Dec 2006 11:07:09 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from husetbladh.homeip.net (81-235-205-78-no59.tbcn.telia.com [81.235.205.78]) by smtp3-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 840F137E46; Sun, 24 Dec 2006 11:07:09 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Macintosh/20061025) Original-To: Henrik Enberg In-Reply-To: <20061223222506.GA7730@printf.se> X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:64202 Archived-At: Henrik Enberg skrev: > Hmm, no I did not have 2.6.1. I did in fact not have autoconf installed > at all when it failed to find X, my shell history file reveals that I > installed libXt-dev and autoconf at the same time. Does this then mean > that Emacs requires autoconf when just running configure? Isn't the > point of the autotools suite that only people who _generate_ the build > scripts need them? A normal user shall not be required to have autoconf at all. Check the top of configure and see what version it was generated with. Jan D.