Re: any mirror/site where I can download Emacs snapshots?
On Mon, Oct 26 2015,Teemu Likonen wrote:
> Sivaram Neelakantan [2015-10-27 00:04:44+05:30] wrote:
>
>> I don't want to clone the whole repository, would a shallow clone also
>> work?
>
> You can use "git clone --depth 1" to get just the latest revision. Most
> of the space is taken by the files, though, not the history. Depth-1
> clone takes 178 MB and full clone 371 MB (all the way to year 1985).
>
right, thanks for that. I will use depth 1 and see how it goes
>> I use xfce and I believe I don't have Gnome libs installed I think.
>> Would that require any changes to the configure option above?
>
> I'm not sure what you mean. Emacs supports these toolkits:
>
> --with-x-toolkit=KIT use an X toolkit (KIT one of: yes or gtk, gtk2,
> gtk3, lucid or athena, motif, no)
>
> (See configure --help)
>
> I use libgtk2.0-dev (for GTK2) but those who prefer GTK3 would install
> libgtk-3-dev instead. The "configure" script will detect what you have
> installed. See its output.
I seem to have on older version of lucid Emacs installed and will go
with lucid.
sivaram
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