Re: x development libraries for cvs emacs
On 2008-12-31 07:01 +0100, Harry Putnam wrote:
> I'm attempting to build emacs from cvs sources. Something I've done
> many times on various linux distributions.
>
> the ./configure step ends with an error about not finding X11
> development libraries (posted at the end)
>
> I'm running a fairly fresh lenny installed from the small cd installer
> using network package access for the install.
>
> It came up with the default xfce4 X11 desktop.
>
> I don't know enough about debian package naming conventions to know
> what I need to install to be able to compile emacs for X.
Assuming that you have a suitable deb-src line in your sources.list, you
can simply use "apt-get build-dep emacs22" to install the needed
packages. You also may want to install librsvg2-dev and libdbus-1-dev
for SVG and Dbus support that is new in Emacs 23.
Sven
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