From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Building 22.1, on Ubuntu Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2007 14:27:09 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <85r6l9wdeq.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <85ejh9xz66.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <711a73df0709080354p31c2c381oe53c1426e89d2db8@mail.gmail.com> <95082D73-1C20-4A53-84CD-C00FC08C6CA3@Web.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189255270 17557 80.91.229.12 (8 Sep 2007 12:41:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 12:41:10 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 08 14:41:10 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ITzcb-0008Nc-0k for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2007 14:41:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ITzcY-0000um-Se for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2007 08:41:06 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!newsfeed01.chello.at!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool4.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:JZY2POH/vthn0it0epy6uo5Uyvo= Original-Lines: 41 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 08 Sep 2007 14:27:10 CEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 4502c7a5.newsspool2.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=h08`0V5MOK`; S:bhJ\G8AG; ^Ak5 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:47354 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Peter Dyballa >> Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 13:23:33 +0200 >> Cc: emac list >> >> >> Am 08.09.2007 um 12:54 schrieb Dave Pawson: >> >> > I guess I need to translate these into something that Ubuntu >> > understands. >> > Back to google. >> >> Ahh, really? Isn't it obvious that the libraries Xaw3d, Xpm, jpeg, >> tiff, ungif, and png are missing and also all X11 libraries and C >> header files? > > Even if it's obvious that Xaw3d is missing when `configure' says > something about "-lXaw3d", the name of the Ubuntu package that one > needs to download is quite clearly NOT obvious. > > Now, if `configure' would say something like > > Xaw3d library not found, suggest to download xaw3dg-dev package > > _then_ it would have been obvious. > > Can we please look at this from the OP's point of view, instead of > demonstrating how much smarter we-all are? That way, we might > actually learn how to improve Emacs, in addition to being nice and > helpful. I doubt that making him choose Emacs for his first project of compiling anything is nice and helpful or relevant for improving Emacs. He'd be much better served by installing Emacs 22.1 from feisty-backports as far as I can see. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum