Re: Building 22.1, on Ubuntu

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Richard G Riley <rileyrgdev@googlemail.com> writes:

> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> In fact, the main complaint people have with the build procedure
>> appears to be that it _still_ builds something useful even in
>> severely limited build environments.
>
> I haven't see that complaint, I must admit.

Then you have not followed the thread: Dave Pawson complained that the
Emacs he managed to compile with minimal libraries did not support
X11.  And he complained over several iterations that what he compiled
seemed sub-par to him, because Emacs compiled something as good as
possible considering the available libraries.

He is not the first one with a complaint like that.  IIRC, Emacs 23
(and possibly also 22.2, don't remember) will balk at compiling an
Emacs omitting libraries which are present in compiled form but
without compilation support, unless you explicitly disable the
particular library support.

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