From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to download and install Emacs CVS? Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:03:11 -0500 Organization: Bell Sympatico Message-ID: <871xc14mhz.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1107188550 29587 80.91.229.6 (31 Jan 2005 16:22:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 16:22:30 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 31 17:22:12 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CveJX-0007uk-00 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:22:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CveWH-0006h3-WF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:35:22 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!fu-berlin.de!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:KaaTDxAKJ6Sorm4Pavgv7Lel0p0= Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.71.119.71 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca Original-X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1107187392 67.71.119.71 (Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:03:12 EST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:03:12 EST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:128271 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 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: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:23778 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:23778 >>> $ ./configure >>> $ make bootstrap >>> # make install >> >> This sequence is OK, but there is much more of choices, particularly a >> windowing environment, i.e. making GNU Emacs a graphical application. >> Try this: >> >> ./configure --help >> >> You'll get a huge list. Important is at least '--with-x'. Then you can --with-x is already the default if you have X11 installed. >> manually choose the X tool kit, GTK or Lucid, as I recommend (Athena is >> very old not very attractive, Motif is not my choice, try a bit of 3D >> look with Xaw-3d). In the --with-x-toolkit argument "lucid" and "athena" mean the same. It also happens to be the default. > Suppose you're using Solaris' CDE as your gui; what's a > reasonable choice, given that. I recommend you stick with the default. It's the best debugged code. Stefan