Re: Development packages need to build emacs from source
Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
> 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?...
>
Because emacs is already packaged for debian, you can use the existing
build dependencies as a starting point. Use the "apt-get build-dep
<package>" command to install the build-time dependencies for any
package. If the bzr sources require additional libraries, you will have
to look for those.
--
regards,
kushal
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