Tom Furie <t...@furie.org.uk> writes: > On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 06:55:22AM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> I got past that now... apparently finally got whatever it was >> installed. But now ./configure complains about X libraries: >> >> error: You seem to be running X, but no X development libraries >> were found. You should install the relevant development files for > > Have you installed xorg-dev?
Egad, I started to install that but got distracted somehow and now on checking I see I never did... thanks. lee <l...@yun.yagibdah.de> writes: [...] > You're welcome :) It might be nice to try out the most recent version of > emacs ... I needed to install libgif-dev for configure to > finish. Now it's compiling ... and seems to have finished without > errors :) Yes, and I can run it just fine. It seems to have trouble > finding some packages required from my ~/.emacs. That's probably > because I didn't install it before trying. > > What I have installed is lesstif2 and libgtk2.0-dev. You can try > installing libgtk2.0-dev or libgtk-3-dev or libmotiv-dev. I needed a few others too, like libncurses-dev. And a few more. But now I kind of see how to find the needed stuff. Still though, I hit a little snap at the end of compile I haven't figured out yet: [...] snipped all but last of `./configure' creating src/epaths.h cd /usr/local/src/bzr/emacs/trunk && autoheader /bin/sh: autoheader: not found make: *** [/usr/local/src/bzr/emacs/trunk/src/stamp-h.in] Error 127 config.status: executing gdbinit commands aptitude knows nothing about `autoheader' or even aptitude search header|grep auto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87pqlto45u....@newsguy.com