Re: Building 22.1, on Ubuntu

[David Kastrup]

Richard G Riley <rileyrgdev@googlemail.com> writes:

> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> If you are going to compile Emacs yourself, you better read the
>> instructions for doing so.  If you don't see that you understand
>> them or don't want to invest the time until you do, it would likely
>> be easier if you just installed a precompiled version of Emacs 22.1
>> from Gutsy instead.
>
> Because you can do it, doesn't mean that others, with less
> experience and/or ability, can.

Experience is not something magically bestowed onto you.  It is
something you have to acquire.

> I concur that trying to build Emacs on Ubuntu is not for the faint
> hearted or those with limited build environment experience.

This has nothing to do with Emacs.  In fact, Emacs is pretty much at
the top of the painlessness scale when it comes to configuring and
compiling a graphical multi-platform application.

In fact, the main complaint people have with the build procedure
appears to be that it _still_ builds something useful even in severely
limited build environments.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum