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Re: missing devel pkgs for emacs build



On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 10:04:31PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Tom Furie <tom@furie.org.uk> writes:
> 
> > On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 05:12:00PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
> >
> >> ./configure returns the error below concerning not finding certain 
> >> pkgs installed concerning X.
> >> 
> >> Tail of output:
> >>   [...]
> >>   checking whether gcc understands -MMD -MF... yes
> >>   checking for long file names... yes
> >>   checking for X... no
> >>   checking for X... true
> >>   configure: error: You seem to be running X, but no X development libraries
> >>   were found.  You should install the relevant development files for X
> >>   and for the toolkit you want, such as Gtk+ or Motif.  Also make
> >>   sure you have development files for image handling, i.e.
> >>   tiff, gif, jpeg, png and xpm.
> >>   [...]
> >
> > As indicated by the error, you require at a minimum the X development
> > packages. Install xorg-dev. You will also need -dev packages for
> > whatever toolkit you're using.
> 
> In a previous post... I said it built fine.  
> 
> Fine is a bit strong since I am still having problems getting some of
> the emacsclient code to compile.... but does not appear to be related
> to xorg at all.

It builds without trouble here. Are you building on an X system? Are you
passing any arguments to configure? What commands are you using before
you get to configure? 

Cheers,
Tom

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