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 --
