From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Subject: Re: Development package hint in INSTALL for GNU/Linux?
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 17:37:24 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87znmb3tmj.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84bryrciil.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> (kai.grossjohann@gmx.net's message of "Mon, 28 Apr 2003 07:12:34 +0200")
>>>>> "Kai" == Kai Großjohann <kai.grossjohann@gmx.net> writes:
Kai> From time to time, I see that people are having problems to
Kai> compile Emacs under GNU/Linux, because many distributions
Kai> don't install the development packages by default.
Kai> What do people think about a hint such as the following in
Kai> INSTALL?
XEmacs has had a similar entry in PROBLEMS for over a year, and it
since then the frequency of such questions has dropped noticably. On
that basis I recommend it.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
*** I know I have libfoo installed, but configure doesn't find it.
Typical of Linux systems with package managers. To link with a shared
library, you only need the shared library. To compile objects that
link with it, you need the headers---and distros don't provide them with
the libraries. You need the additional "development" package, too.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
It's my original text, and already copyright FSF per my assign.future
for XEmacs.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-28 8:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-28 5:12 Development package hint in INSTALL for GNU/Linux? Kai Großjohann
2003-04-28 8:37 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2003-04-29 5:39 ` Richard Stallman
2003-04-29 7:06 ` Andreas Davour
2003-04-29 12:02 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-04-30 5:44 ` Richard Stallman
2003-05-01 11:29 ` Andreas Davour
2003-04-30 7:59 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-30 9:55 ` Glenn Morris
2003-04-30 12:33 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-05-01 3:19 ` Richard Stallman
2003-05-01 11:46 ` Andreas Davour
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