Re: Building 22.1, on Ubuntu

[David Kastrup]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>
>> Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 13:23:33 +0200
>> Cc: emac list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>> 
>> 
>> Am 08.09.2007 um 12:54 schrieb Dave Pawson:
>> 
>> > I guess I need to translate these into something that Ubuntu  
>> > understands.
>> > Back to google.
>> 
>> Ahh, really? Isn't it obvious that the libraries Xaw3d, Xpm, jpeg,  
>> tiff, ungif, and png are missing and also all X11 libraries and C  
>> header files?
>
> Even if it's obvious that Xaw3d is missing when `configure' says
> something about "-lXaw3d", the name of the Ubuntu package that one
> needs to download is quite clearly NOT obvious.
>
> Now, if `configure' would say something like
>
>   Xaw3d library not found, suggest to download xaw3dg-dev package
>
> _then_ it would have been obvious.
>
> Can we please look at this from the OP's point of view, instead of
> demonstrating how much smarter we-all are?  That way, we might
> actually learn how to improve Emacs, in addition to being nice and
> helpful.

I doubt that making him choose Emacs for his first project of
compiling anything is nice and helpful or relevant for improving
Emacs.

He'd be much better served by installing Emacs 22.1 from
feisty-backports as far as I can see.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum