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Re: Development packages need to build emacs from source



On Sat, Aug 03, 2013 at 12:27:52PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
> I'm building emacs for the bzr sources but keep being told I don't
> have x development pkgs installed.
> 
> I installed several xorg.*dev pkgs.. and a few others that looked like
> they might be what I need.  But still getting the report from
> configure that x development files are not found, and offers to buils
> --without-x
> 
> Anyone here who has built emacs recently that knows what pkgs I need
> to be able to build it?... 

Have you tried `apt-get build-dep emacs`?
(Note - you need the sources repo in your sources.list.)

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