From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: tarball builds Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 13:00:07 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87twe57lmn.fsf@xi.bootis> <45fb742d-0121-3588-e87d-3a80c9d1d056@cs.ucla.edu> <582be31a-5eb6-55a0-8cb0-940058ec631f@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1472576255 31580 195.159.176.226 (30 Aug 2016 16:57:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 16:57:35 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 30 18:57:31 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bemLp-0007WR-5w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2016 18:57:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50239 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bemLm-0003Mz-TW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2016 12:57:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36929) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bemLf-0003Ln-C7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2016 12:57:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bemLc-0002nG-8H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2016 12:57:19 -0400 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:57066) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bemLc-0002nB-3k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2016 12:57:16 -0400 Original-Received: from ceviche.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.7/8.14.1) with ESMTP id u7UGvh5e017079; Tue, 30 Aug 2016 12:57:43 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id B237666274; Tue, 30 Aug 2016 13:00:07 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <582be31a-5eb6-55a0-8cb0-940058ec631f@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Tue, 30 Aug 2016 08:59:40 -0700") X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV5782=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9418 : core <5782> : inlines <5157> : streams <1692543> : uri <2278163> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.20 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:206966 Archived-At: >> I have the impression that the same holds for Mac OS X and for Windows > I don't use either OS, but I do still use Solaris 10 and the default > installs on Solaris 10 (which is still shipping!) lack many developer tools > like Autoconf. But does it come with the other things we require (libgnutls, libpng, ...)? If not, what steps are usually used to bring those dependencies? If they're usually brought from some kind of package management system like Fink/Macports/APT/RPM then adding more dependencies shouldn't make much difference. > because they want to try Emacs out on a less-common platform, or they want > to use the latest version of Emacs when their distribution has an > earlier version. For GNU/Linux, as mentioned, compiling the latest is easy because you just need a single command to bring in all the needed packages (no matter how many there are). Stefan