From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Build emacs on debian Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2014 19:49:51 -0400 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87zjjy81cw.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87sipq2ny0.fsf@newsguy.com> <20140406211145.GA7796@hysteria.proulx.com> <87fvlq2m4s.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1396828251 23726 80.91.229.3 (6 Apr 2014 23:50:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 23:50:51 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 07 01:50:44 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WWwpm-0003Fs-GB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2014 01:50:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59623 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WWwpm-000304-4w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2014 19:50:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58240) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WWwpO-0002zu-Ky for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2014 19:50:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WWwpI-0000OI-Bt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2014 19:50:18 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:52277) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WWwpI-0000OC-40 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2014 19:50:12 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WWwpG-0002kG-1c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2014 01:50:10 +0200 Original-Received: from z65-50-57-227.ips.direcpath.com ([65.50.57.227]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 07 Apr 2014 01:50:10 +0200 Original-Received: from reader by z65-50-57-227.ips.direcpath.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 07 Apr 2014 01:50:10 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 35 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: z65-50-57-227.ips.direcpath.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (usg-unix-v) Cancel-Lock: sha1:cqOKPeHLIjpU4H7ndbKRq0hZGTo= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:97023 Archived-At: Harry Putnam writes: > Bob Proulx writes: > >> Harry Putnam wrote: >>> I'm running into errors I've hit before and recognize but do not >>> recall which pkgs were necessary to make configure work. >> >> The easiest thing is to start with whatever the Debian packager >> thought was needed for the Debian package. >> >> # apt-get build-dep emacs24 >> >> That will install the build dependencies as declared in the packaged >> files. You might want something more or less but that is a good start. > > Thanks for the trusty good input sir. > > I think you may have given that same answer some mnths ago. Sorry to > be a pest. This one goes in the emacs notes db. Oddly that ended poorly.... not sure why: sudo apt-get build-dep emacs24 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list I'm pretty sure I don't need source pkgs to build emacs so must be something else going on. cat source.list: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free