From: "Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>,
sdl.web@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Should libXt-devel be required to build Emacs?
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 23:12:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <458DA9C5.9090101@swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061223204322.GA5902@printf.se>
Henrik Enberg skrev:
> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>> > That's not so bad. Most users don't need to rebuild the configure
>> > file, so they won't have a problem.
>> >
>> > However, we could ask the Autoconf developers to release a patched
>> > version 2.59.1 which fixes this bug and doesn't require a new M4.
>>
>> On the other hand, most users don't compile Emacs at all; they use
>> pre-packaged binaries; those that do compile Emacs can surely install
>> libXt-dev.
>>
>> I don't remember all the details of the problem. If libXt-dev is not
>> installed, what happens when configure is correctly built with
>> autoconf 2.61? Does compilation fail because libXt-dev includes
>> things needed for compilation? Or does compilation work?
>
> I just built Emacs on a brand new Debian system, and without libXt-dev,
> the configure script doesn't find X11 at all, even when passing
> --with-x. So you end up with a non-x enabled Emacs.
>
But you probably didn't use autoconf 2.61. If you had, you would have an X
enabled Emacs.
< 2.61 and no libXt-dev: configure fails to find X at all.
2.61 and no libXt-dev: configure finds X correctly.
Compilation works in both cases.
Jan D.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-23 22:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-18 17:25 Should libXt-devel be required to build Emacs? Leo
2006-12-19 6:55 ` Jan Djärv
2006-12-19 13:12 ` Leo
2006-12-19 20:36 ` Jan Djärv
2006-12-19 20:52 ` Leo
2006-12-20 16:00 ` Jan Djärv
2006-12-20 16:41 ` Chong Yidong
2006-12-20 17:02 ` Leo
2006-12-21 4:57 ` Richard Stallman
2006-12-21 15:25 ` Chong Yidong
2006-12-21 23:18 ` Richard Stallman
2006-12-21 23:57 ` Chong Yidong
2006-12-22 7:43 ` Jan Djärv
2006-12-22 11:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-12-23 20:13 ` Richard Stallman
2006-12-23 20:43 ` Henrik Enberg
2006-12-23 22:12 ` Jan Djärv [this message]
2006-12-23 22:25 ` Henrik Enberg
2006-12-24 10:06 ` Jan Djärv
2006-12-24 17:09 ` Richard Stallman
2006-12-22 19:25 ` Chong Yidong
2006-12-23 20:14 ` Richard Stallman
2006-12-22 7:40 ` Jan Djärv
2006-12-20 17:14 ` Jan Djärv
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