Re: Which development and image libraries needed to build emacs-24

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> writes:


[...]

> Very strange. I get 2,660,000 results, and the second is the one to
> which I was referring: package libgtk2.0-dev. (Did you perhaps include
> the quote marks? I didn't.)
>

Yes with the quotes.  I assumed that was your intent.

>>> | sure you have development files for image handling, i.e.
>>> | tiff, gif, jpeg, png and xpm.
>
>>> It didn't seem to be particularly hard to follow the motif and find
>>> development package suggestions for at least some of these.
>
>> I don't understand you here either ...  motif?

> Theme. (Perhaps motif was a bad choice of word given the context.)

> libtiff-dev or libtiff4-dev
> libopenjpeg-dev or libjpeg62-dev or libjpeg8-dev

Thanks again.  In spite of my wooden headedness your clues solved the
problem as I reported in my first reply.

These again are plenty to solve further possible problems.  Very
helpful.

The last problem I reported:

,----
| [...]
| creating src/epaths.h
| make[1]: Entering directory `/anex/usr_local/src/vcs/bzr/emacs/trunk'
| make[1]: Leaving directory `/anex/usr_local/src/vcs/bzr/emacs/trunk'
| config.status: executing gdbinit commands
| config.status: executing gdbinit commands
| ./config.status: line 2071: syntax error near unexpected token `;'
| ./config.status: line 2071: `;'
`----

> Looking at that area of the file, I don't really see which `;' is out
> of place.
  
Was solved by further activities of emacs developers, and an update of
my bzr copy has removed that as well, so now compiling trouble free.