From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: problems building emacs with libgpm & gnutls on an old Debian system (Jessie)
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2020 15:10:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h7tamw17.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m2d03yk63m.fsf@gmail.com
On Monday, 10 Aug 2020 at 15:01, Robert Pluim wrote:
> Glad it worked. Which millenium was this sytem from again? ;-)
Software 6 years old and hardware 10 years old which in computing means
16th century? ;-)
But, more seriously, it's depressing that I keep going back to some of
my old systems in preference to "newer supposedly more advanced"
systems. In this case, it's a wee OpenPandora palmtop which still works
better than an 8 year later iteration from another company.
The same applies to one of my phones: my Nokia N900 (2008 vintage) still
runs metaphoric rings around any Android phone including my S20+, brand
new this year. But I haven't tried getting Emacs running on the
N900... :-)
> Emacs uses gnulib for this kind of stuff, and since itʼs all low-level
> system calls, there are no configure level switches for turning it
> off. Itʼs not like itʼs TLS support or an image library, which are optional.
Understood. Sounds reasonable. At least I know what I have to do now.
Thanks again for all your help (and your patience!),
eric
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Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50 & org 9.3.7 on Debian bullseye/sid
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-10 14:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-06 16:05 problems building emacs with libgpm & gnutls on an old Debian system (Jessie) Eric S Fraga
2020-08-06 17:40 ` Robert Pluim
2020-08-07 10:18 ` Eric S Fraga
2020-08-07 10:49 ` Robert Pluim
2020-08-10 11:17 ` Eric S Fraga
2020-08-10 13:01 ` Robert Pluim
2020-08-10 14:10 ` Eric S Fraga [this message]
2020-08-10 14:21 ` Robert Pluim
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