From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: return first element in list with certain property Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2017 09:46:28 +0200 Message-ID: <83indy94x7.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87o9nrovx4.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1511596041 8869 195.159.176.226 (25 Nov 2017 07:47:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2017 07:47:21 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 25 08:47:13 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1eIVB8-0001Re-2u for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2017 08:47:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52298 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eIVBF-000117-2c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2017 02:47:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48118) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eIVAl-0000oA-UO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2017 02:46:48 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eIVAi-0000ua-S6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2017 02:46:47 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:54554) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eIVAi-0000uU-OK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2017 02:46:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3733 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eIVAi-0001LH-7K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2017 02:46:44 -0500 In-reply-to: <87o9nrovx4.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> (message from Robert Thorpe on Sat, 25 Nov 2017 03:54:15 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:115090 Archived-At: > From: Robert Thorpe > Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2017 03:54:15 +0000 > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > > Compiling Emacs is a non-starter because there are too many build > options and nobody understands them except distro builders and the > Emacs maintainers. ??? Just use the defaults (i.e. no options except, perhaps, --prefix), and you should be fine. The non-default options indeed need you to understand them, but they are for corner cases, and generally can be ignored unless your needs are unusual, e.g. if your Unix box is 32-bit, or your GTK is buggy.