Tom Furie <t...@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.
As it turns out xorg-dev is not required for building emacs. It built ok without it.. I did need a pile of other stuff though aptitude search xorg-dev p xorg-dev p xserver-xorg-dev Yet emacs built just fine. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87lhvhvr6k....@newsguy.com
