The command I used was (I'm doing an out of tree build) ../../src/emacs-24.0.90/configure --with-jpeg=no --with-png=no --with-gif=no --with-tiff=no The last few lines printed are: ... > checking for getpt... no > checking for library containing tputs... no > configure: error: I couldn't find termcap functions (tputs and friends). > Maybe some development libraries/packages are missing? Try installing > libncurses-dev(el), libterminfo-dev(el) or similar. The config.log file is attached: I'm happy to help out anyway I can. Thank you, pedz