On 2008-12-31 07:01 +0100, Harry Putnam wrote: > I'm attempting to build emacs from cvs sources. Something I've done > many times on various linux distributions. > > the ./configure step ends with an error about not finding X11 > development libraries (posted at the end) > > I'm running a fairly fresh lenny installed from the small cd installer > using network package access for the install. > > It came up with the default xfce4 X11 desktop. > > I don't know enough about debian package naming conventions to know > what I need to install to be able to compile emacs for X.
Assuming that you have a suitable deb-src line in your sources.list, you can simply use "apt-get build-dep emacs22" to install the needed packages. You also may want to install librsvg2-dev and libdbus-1-dev for SVG and Dbus support that is new in Emacs 23. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
