On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 01:34:14PM +0200, Robert Pluim wrote:
> >>>>> On Fri, 26 May 2023 06:28:33 +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de said:

[...]

>     tomas> I compile Emacs somewhat irregularly under Debian stable (currently
>     tomas> bullseye). I haven't ever needed anything which hasn't been in the
>     tomas> distro [...]

> 'apt-get build-dep emacs' is enough on Debian. Emacs tries very hard
> not to depend on too-new library versions.

But note that the dependencies of a "newer" Emacs might grow during stable's
lifetime.

In any case, I usually try to find out the dependencies, since I'm interested
in learning them while building.

Cheers
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t