From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Build emacs on debian Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2014 21:14:32 -0400 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87txa6ueiv.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87sipq2ny0.fsf@newsguy.com> <20140406211145.GA7796@hysteria.proulx.com> <87fvlq2m4s.fsf@newsguy.com> <87zjjy81cw.fsf@newsguy.com> <877g72nff0.fsf@desiato.home.uhoreg.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1396833323 14036 80.91.229.3 (7 Apr 2014 01:15:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 01:15:23 +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 03:15:15 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 1WWy9b-0005Q1-7a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2014 03:15:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59838 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WWy9a-0000RP-Dl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2014 21:15:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39085) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WWy9L-0000ON-AQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2014 21:15:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WWy9F-0006P8-Oo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2014 21:14:59 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:53880) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WWy9F-0006P4-Ir for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2014 21:14:53 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WWy9D-00054D-8q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2014 03:14:51 +0200 Original-Received: from z65-50-57-227.ips.direcpath.com ([65.50.57.227]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 07 Apr 2014 03:14:51 +0200 Original-Received: from reader by z65-50-57-227.ips.direcpath.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 07 Apr 2014 03:14:51 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: z65-50-57-227.ips.direcpath.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:kz2oyd9nO4QO7m2Lu6UuZr3OlOk= 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:97026 Archived-At: hubert writes: > On Sun, 06 Apr 2014 19:49:51 -0400, Harry Putnam said: > >> Oddly that ended poorly.... not sure why: sudo apt-get build-dep >> emacs24 > >> Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state >> information... Done E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your >> sources.list > >> I'm pretty sure I don't need source pkgs to build emacs so must be >> something else going on. > > It needs the deb-src urls so that it can fetch the source package > description to install the build dependencies. If you don't want to add > the deb-src urls, then you can download the dsc file manually. Just go > to https://packages.debian.org/sid/emacs24, and click on the .dsc file > listed on the right-hand side. Then look at the Build-Depends line. > That's a list of all the packages that are needed to build. Ahh yes, nice. Thanks for the great input.