From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Development package hint in INSTALL for GNU/Linux? Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 07:12:34 +0200 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <84bryrciil.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1051509683 23548 80.91.224.249 (28 Apr 2003 06:01:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 06:01:23 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 28 08:01:21 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19A1hZ-00067g-00 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 08:01:21 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19A1pb-00087n-00 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 08:09:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19A1iK-0004zR-00 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 02:02:08 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19A1hk-0004RM-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 02:01:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19A1hY-0003th-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 02:01:23 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19A1hQ-0003M8-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 02:01:12 -0400 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19A1gI-00064J-00 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 08:00:02 +0200 Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19A1gG-000647-00 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 08:00:00 +0200 Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.090019 (Oort Gnus v0.19) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+6S8BffK1b/pMO3UrPWk62/gJ7Y= X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:13503 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:13503 >>From time to time, I see that people are having problems to compile Emacs under GNU/Linux, because many distributions don't install the development packages by default. What do people think about a hint such as the following in INSTALL? --- INSTALL.~1.94.~ Sat Feb 15 12:07:09 2003 +++ INSTALL Mon Apr 28 07:10:57 2003 @@ -172,6 +172,13 @@ Unicode characters are available from and . +* GNU/Linux development packages + +Many GNU/Linux systems do not come with development packages by +default; they just include the files that you need to run Emacs, but +not those you need to compile it. For example, to compile Emacs with +X11 support, you may need to install the special `X11 development' +package. DETAILED BUILDING AND INSTALLATION: -- file-error; Data: (Opening input file no such file or directory ~/.signature)