From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: problems building emacs with libgpm & gnutls on an old Debian system (Jessie)
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2020 16:21:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m21rkek2dz.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h7tamw17.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (Eric S. Fraga's message of "Mon, 10 Aug 2020 15:10:28 +0100")
>>>>> On Mon, 10 Aug 2020 15:10:28 +0100, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> said:
Eric> On Monday, 10 Aug 2020 at 15:01, Robert Pluim wrote:
>> Glad it worked. Which millenium was this sytem from again? ;-)
Eric> Software 6 years old and hardware 10 years old which in computing means
Eric> 16th century? ;-)
GNU/Linux distributions tend to move quite fast.
>> Emacs uses gnulib for this kind of stuff, and since itʼs all low-level
>> system calls, there are no configure level switches for turning it
>> off. Itʼs not like itʼs TLS support or an image library, which are optional.
Eric> Understood. Sounds reasonable. At least I know what I have to do now.
Eric> Thanks again for all your help (and your patience!),
Iʼm not a patient person, I just play one on the Internet :-)
Robert
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-06 16:05 problems building emacs with libgpm & gnutls on an old Debian system (Jessie) Eric S Fraga
2020-08-06 17:40 ` Robert Pluim
2020-08-07 10:18 ` Eric S Fraga
2020-08-07 10:49 ` Robert Pluim
2020-08-10 11:17 ` Eric S Fraga
2020-08-10 13:01 ` Robert Pluim
2020-08-10 14:10 ` Eric S Fraga
2020-08-10 14:21 ` Robert Pluim [this message]
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