From: Dale Snell <ddsnell@frontier.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: n00b installing 24.4
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 12:53:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141022125303.2bcc6d88@zothique> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r3xzsxde.fsf@stevenarntson.com>
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On Wed, 22 Oct 2014 12:44:13 -0700
Steven Arntson <steven@stevenarntson.com> wrote:
> I've been using emacs 24.3.1 with Ubuntu 14.04, and generally doing
> fine. I downloaded 24.4, and ran ./configure, and got the following
> warnings about missing libraries:
>
> |checking for libXaw... configure: error: No X toolkit could be found.
>
> and:
>
> |configure: error: The following required libraries were not found:
> | libXpm libjpeg libpng libgif/libungif libtiff
> |Maybe some development libraries/packages are missing?
> |If you don't want to link with them give
> | --with-xpm=no --with-jpeg=no --with-png=no --with-gif=no
> | --with-tiff=no
>
> Seeing "jpeg" and "png" makes me think this is some pretty normal
> stuff that is probably on my computer somewhere, but the installer
> can't find them, but I also do not know how to find them!
You undoubtedly do have normal libraries. What you are probably
missing are the -devel (-dev on Ubuntu/Debian?) packages. These have
the proper header files and whatnot to allow you to compile programs
that use those libraries.
Hope this helps.
--Dale
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-22 19:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-22 19:44 n00b installing 24.4 Steven Arntson
2014-10-22 19:53 ` Dale Snell [this message]
2014-10-22 19:53 ` Paul Smith
2014-10-22 20:00 ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-22 21:11 ` Steven Arntson
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