From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glyn Millington Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Build emacs on debian Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2014 22:24:32 +0100 Organization: Utterly lacking Message-ID: <87mwfy6tin.fsf@nowhere.org> References: <87sipq2ny0.fsf@newsguy.com> Reply-To: glyn.millington@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1396827222 12090 80.91.229.3 (6 Apr 2014 23:33:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 23:33:42 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 07 01:33:35 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WWwZB-0004FA-Tj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2014 01:33:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59582 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WWwZB-0002Kv-HI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2014 19:33:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55917) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WWwYv-0002Kh-9m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2014 19:33:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WWwYo-00045y-Fc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2014 19:33:17 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:52397) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WWwYo-00045o-9Q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2014 19:33:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WWwYn-0003so-27 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2014 01:33:09 +0200 Original-Received: from cust25-dsl91-135-3.idnet.net ([91.135.3.25]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 07 Apr 2014 01:33:09 +0200 Original-Received: from glyn.millington by cust25-dsl91-135-3.idnet.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 07 Apr 2014 01:33:09 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 45 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cust25-dsl91-135-3.idnet.net X-Liturgical-Date: Sunday: Fifth Sunday of Lent, A.D. 2014 X-Shakespeare: "Love's not love When it is mingled with regards that stand Aloof from the entire point." -- King Lear, I.1 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:URLZrr1xxHosB7mfbHBWUvnlWh8= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:97021 Archived-At: Harry Putnam writes: > Running debian (jesse/testing) > > I've built emacs for yrs but have not done so for a good while now. > > I'm running into errors I've hit before and recognize but do not > recall which pkgs were necessary to make configure work. > > There must have been some devel pkgs removed in the interm. > > My ./configure cmd > > ./configure --with-xft --with-x-toolkit=lucid > --prefix=/usr/local/src/vcs/bzr/test > > A few lines of output containing the error below: > > [...] > checking for long file names... yes > checking for X... no > checking for X... true > configure: error: You seem to be running X, but no X development libraries > were found. You should install the relevant development files for X > and for the toolkit you want, such as Gtk+ or Motif. Also make > sure you have development files for image handling, i.e. > tiff, gif, jpeg, png and xpm. > > [...] > > Any debian people here who know what I'm missing? Haven't been a debian person for years but I think what you want is #apt-get build-dep emacs That should pull down and build the dependencies for emacs. atb Glyn