From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rustom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What is the best way to get emacs23? Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:52:18 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <8c3da4b1-fead-492e-b42e-5e1220bfb385@v13g2000pro.googlegroups.com> References: <415fa895-01bd-47c5-8675-312cc3361264@r15g2000prh.googlegroups.com> <3f1415b5-5f77-41fa-b1a0-7c6890809b5f@40g2000prx.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1226497255 16218 80.91.229.12 (12 Nov 2008 13:40:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:40:55 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 12 14:41:56 2008 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 1L0Fyl-00068d-JE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:41:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59871 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L0Fxd-0004OJ-Me for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:40:45 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!v13g2000pro.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.95.53.124 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1226494338 16985 127.0.0.1 (12 Nov 2008 12:52:18 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:52:18 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: v13g2000pro.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.95.53.124; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052912 Firefox/3.0,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:164355 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:59689 Archived-At: Giving up (on building emacs 23 on debian etch) The latest error I get is configure wants glib glib wants gtk and then apt bails out saying libgtk2.0-dev: Depends: libgtk2.0-0 (=2.8.20-7) but 2.10.13-2~bpo.1 is to be installed I suppose one could try to get around it but in my experience when pango gtk glib X etc start getting pulled in by dependencies it will break anyway later and is generally not worth it. So sticking with 22 (on debian etch) (Have an ubuntu hardy laptop where the story may be different. But doubt whether that too is worth the struggle)