Re: Compiling CVS Emacs with X toolkit

[Robert Thorpe]

Mathias Dahl wrote:
> Since upgradring my GNU/Linux installation from Mandrake 10.1 Official
> to Mandriva Free 2007, my CVS Emacs build does not get any X
> capabilities. I use the same script (cd prj/emacs; cvs update;
> ./configure; make etc...) as I did before.
>
> Of course I understand that this has to do with the new install and
> that I lack some "blabla-devel-y.z" libraries, but I find it hard to
> figure out exactly which I lack. Using rpmdrake (which is a very nice
> tool), there is a jungle of different libs for "X" to choose from. I
> don't care much about which toolkit I use although GTK would be nice.
>
> Any pointers?
>
> Maybe this question would be more valid in some Mandria forum, I don't
> know...

Do what Giorgos said.  The libraries Emacs uses are libXt and libXaw,
as far as I can remember.

I wouldn't recommend the GTK+ build at least until after the current
Emacs version has been released.