Compiling CVS Emacs with X toolkit

Compiling CVS Emacs with X toolkit

[Mathias Dahl]

Since upgradring my GNU/Linux installation from Mandrake 10.1 Official
to Mandriva Free 2007, my CVS Emacs build does not get any X
capabilities. I use the same script (cd prj/emacs; cvs update;
./configure; make etc...) as I did before.

Of course I understand that this has to do with the new install and
that I lack some "blabla-devel-y.z" libraries, but I find it hard to
figure out exactly which I lack. Using rpmdrake (which is a very nice
tool), there is a jungle of different libs for "X" to choose from. I
don't care much about which toolkit I use although GTK would be nice.

Any pointers?

Maybe this question would be more valid in some Mandria forum, I don't
know...

Re: Compiling CVS Emacs with X toolkit

[Sean Sieger]

Mathias Dahl <brakjoller@gmail.com> writes:


   don't care much about which toolkit I use although GTK would be nice.

   Any pointers?

libgtk2.0-dev

Re: Compiling CVS Emacs with X toolkit

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 15:46:33 +0100, Mathias Dahl <brakjoller@gmail.com> wrote:
> Since upgradring my GNU/Linux installation from Mandrake 10.1 Official
> to Mandriva Free 2007, my CVS Emacs build does not get any X
> capabilities. I use the same script (cd prj/emacs; cvs update;
> ./configure; make etc...) as I did before.
>
> Of course I understand that this has to do with the new install and
> that I lack some "blabla-devel-y.z" libraries, but I find it hard to
> figure out exactly which I lack. Using rpmdrake (which is a very nice
> tool), there is a jungle of different libs for "X" to choose from. I
> don't care much about which toolkit I use although GTK would be nice.
>
> Any pointers?

Can you save the configure-time log with:

    $ ./configure --with-x --with-x-toolkit-lucid 2>&1 | tee logfile

and then post online somewhere the files `logfile' and `config.log'?

This way we can look at what `./configure' does and try to find out why
it fails to locate the necessary X11 libraries.

Re: Compiling CVS Emacs with X toolkit

[Robert Thorpe]

Mathias Dahl wrote:
> Since upgradring my GNU/Linux installation from Mandrake 10.1 Official
> to Mandriva Free 2007, my CVS Emacs build does not get any X
> capabilities. I use the same script (cd prj/emacs; cvs update;
> ./configure; make etc...) as I did before.
>
> Of course I understand that this has to do with the new install and
> that I lack some "blabla-devel-y.z" libraries, but I find it hard to
> figure out exactly which I lack. Using rpmdrake (which is a very nice
> tool), there is a jungle of different libs for "X" to choose from. I
> don't care much about which toolkit I use although GTK would be nice.
>
> Any pointers?
>
> Maybe this question would be more valid in some Mandria forum, I don't
> know...

Do what Giorgos said.  The libraries Emacs uses are libXt and libXaw,
as far as I can remember.

I wouldn't recommend the GTK+ build at least until after the current
Emacs version has been released.

Re: Compiling CVS Emacs with X toolkit

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 23 Nov 2006 06:59:08 -0800, "Robert Thorpe" <rthorpe@realworldtech.com> wrote:
> Mathias Dahl wrote:
>> Since upgradring my GNU/Linux installation from Mandrake 10.1 Official
>> to Mandriva Free 2007, my CVS Emacs build does not get any X
>> capabilities. I use the same script (cd prj/emacs; cvs update;
>> ./configure; make etc...) as I did before.
>>
>> Of course I understand that this has to do with the new install and
>> that I lack some "blabla-devel-y.z" libraries, but I find it hard to
>> figure out exactly which I lack. Using rpmdrake (which is a very nice
>> tool), there is a jungle of different libs for "X" to choose from. I
>> don't care much about which toolkit I use although GTK would be nice.
>>
>> Any pointers?
>>
>> Maybe this question would be more valid in some Mandria forum, I don't
>> know...
>
> Do what Giorgos said.  The libraries Emacs uses are libXt and libXaw,
> as far as I can remember.

Right... and a few other X11-related libraries.

   % keramida@kobe:/home/keramida$ emacs --batch --eval '(princ (format "%s\n" (version)))'
   % GNU Emacs 22.0.91.2 (i386-unknown-freebsd7.0, X toolkit)
   %  of 2006-11-22 on kobe
   % keramida@kobe:/home/keramida$ ldd /opt/emacs/bin/emacs
   % /opt/emacs/bin/emacs:
=> %         libXaw.so.8 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw.so.8 (0x281cf000)
=> %         libXmu.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0x28223000)
=> %         libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x28237000)
=> %         libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x28282000)
=> %         libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x2828a000)
=> %         libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x282a0000)
   %         libtiff.so.4 => /usr/local/lib/libtiff.so.4 (0x282ad000)
   %         libjpeg.so.9 => /usr/local/lib/libjpeg.so.9 (0x282fb000)
   %         libpng.so.5 => /usr/local/lib/libpng.so.5 (0x28319000)
   %         libz.so.3 => /lib/libz.so.3 (0x2833b000)
   %         libm.so.4 => /lib/libm.so.4 (0x2834c000)
   %         libungif.so.5 => /usr/local/lib/libungif.so.5 (0x28362000)
=> %         libXpm.so.4 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0x2836a000)
=> %         libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x28379000)
   %         libutil.so.6 => /lib/libutil.so.6 (0x2843b000)
   %         libncurses.so.6 => /lib/libncurses.so.6 (0x28447000)
   %         libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x2848f000)
=> %         libXp.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXp.so.6 (0x28583000)
   % keramida@kobe:/home/keramida$ 

Re: Compiling CVS Emacs with X toolkit

[Robert Thorpe]

Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 23 Nov 2006 06:59:08 -0800, "Robert Thorpe" <rthorpe@realworldtech.com> wrote:
> > Mathias Dahl wrote:
> >> Since upgradring my GNU/Linux installation from Mandrake 10.1 Official
> >> to Mandriva Free 2007, my CVS Emacs build does not get any X
> >> capabilities. I use the same script (cd prj/emacs; cvs update;
> >> ./configure; make etc...) as I did before.
> >>
> >> Of course I understand that this has to do with the new install and
> >> that I lack some "blabla-devel-y.z" libraries, but I find it hard to
> >> figure out exactly which I lack. Using rpmdrake (which is a very nice
> >> tool), there is a jungle of different libs for "X" to choose from. I
> >> don't care much about which toolkit I use although GTK would be nice.
> >>
> >> Any pointers?
> >>
> >> Maybe this question would be more valid in some Mandria forum, I don't
> >> know...
> >
> > Do what Giorgos said.  The libraries Emacs uses are libXt and libXaw,
> > as far as I can remember.
>
> Right... and a few other X11-related libraries.
>
>    % keramida@kobe:/home/keramida$ emacs --batch --eval '(princ (format "%s\n" (version)))'
>    % GNU Emacs 22.0.91.2 (i386-unknown-freebsd7.0, X toolkit)
>    %  of 2006-11-22 on kobe
>    % keramida@kobe:/home/keramida$ ldd /opt/emacs/bin/emacs
>    % /opt/emacs/bin/emacs:

Wow.  I haven't even heard of some of those libraries.  It looks like
image support is the reason for most of those libs being needed.  Emacs
has changed a lot since v20.7 when I looked at this last.

Re: Compiling CVS Emacs with X toolkit

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 23 Nov 2006 09:22:20 -0800,
"Robert Thorpe" <rthorpe@realworldtech.com> wrote:
> Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>> Right... and a few other X11-related libraries.
>>
>>    % keramida@kobe:/home/keramida$ emacs --batch \
>>    %     --eval '(princ (format "%s\n" (version)))'
>>    % GNU Emacs 22.0.91.2 (i386-unknown-freebsd7.0, X toolkit)
>>    %  of 2006-11-22 on kobe
>>    % keramida@kobe:/home/keramida$ ldd /opt/emacs/bin/emacs
>>    % /opt/emacs/bin/emacs:
>>      [...]
>
> Wow.  I haven't even heard of some of those libraries.  It looks like
> image support is the reason for most of those libs being needed.  Emacs
> has changed a lot since v20.7 when I looked at this last.

FWIW,

Yes, a lot of these are probably a result of the local configuration.
I usually build a local CVS snapshot of Emacs 22 with:

    ./configure --prefix='/opt/emacs' --with-x --with-x-toolkit=lucid \
        --with-xpm --with-jpeg --with-tiff --with-gif --with-png

This includes *all* the graphics libraries which Emacs can work with in
X11, except for GTK+ widget support.  I haven't been able to track down
a minor bug which causes Emacs to dump core on FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT when
I enable GTK+ widget support, but the `lucid' toolkit works fine and has
been working for several months now (with the options shown above) :)

- Giorgos

Re: Compiling CVS Emacs with X toolkit

[Leo]

On Thursday, 23 Nov 2006, Robert Thorpe wrote:

> Wow.  I haven't even heard of some of those libraries.  It looks like
> image support is the reason for most of those libs being needed.  Emacs
> has changed a lot since v20.7 when I looked at this last.

It surely does. The NEWS file for Emacs 22 is 224K in my system.

-- 
Leo

Re: Compiling CVS Emacs with X toolkit

[Mathias Dahl]

Mathias Dahl <brakjoller@gmail.com> writes:

> Since upgradring my GNU/Linux installation from Mandrake 10.1
> Official to Mandriva Free 2007, my CVS Emacs build does not get any
> X capabilities. I use the same script (cd prj/emacs; cvs update;
> ./configure; make etc...) as I did before.
>
> Of course I understand that this has to do with the new install and
> that I lack some "blabla-devel-y.z" libraries, but I find it hard to
> figure out exactly which I lack. Using rpmdrake (which is a very
> nice tool), there is a jungle of different libs for "X" to choose
> from. I don't care much about which toolkit I use although GTK would
> be nice.

I got an excellent response from Peter Dyballa, with a list of
libraries:

       libgif
       libjpeg.62
       libpng
       libtiff
       libncurses
       libICE
       libSM
       libXaw3d
       libX11
       libXext
       libXmu
       libXpm
       libXt

I installed most of them and now I have a shiny new CVS Emacs with GTK
toolkit :)