From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Development package hint in INSTALL for GNU/Linux? Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 17:37:24 +0900 Organization: The XEmacs Project Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87znmb3tmj.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <84bryrciil.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1051519180 23048 80.91.224.249 (28 Apr 2003 08:39:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 08:39:40 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 28 10:39:38 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 19A4Ak-0005zb-00 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 10:39:38 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19A4Ip-0001GW-00 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 10:48:00 +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 19A4AE-0002NE-0B for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 04:39:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19A49o-00025m-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 04:38:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19A49Y-0001MG-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 04:38:24 -0400 Original-Received: from tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.98.109]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19A49M-0000xT-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 04:38:12 -0400 Original-Received: from steve by tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 19A48b-0006mX-00 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 17:37:25 +0900 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org 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") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) XEmacs/21.5 (cabbage) 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:13506 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:13506 >>>>> "Kai" =3D=3D Kai Gro=DFjohann 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. --=20 Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac= .jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JA= PAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.