Re: Help with make install to a non-default directory - Emacs not finding lisp files maybe?

[N. Jackson]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> SHR can only be used if Emacs was compiled with support for libxml.
> Most likely you don't have libxml-devel (or whatever the name is)
> installed, so your locally compiled Emacs can't use your libxml.
>
>
>         Stefan

Aha! Thanks Stefan. The configure script had asked for various libraries
(a toolkit library, four image libraries, and somthing about curses)
which I installed for it, but it made no mention of wanting an XML
library. But looking back in the details of the configure log, I see
that it silently skips other (non-vital?) libraries that it doesn't
find.

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> Run `M-x eww' and see if it works.  It uses shr.
>
> If it works, it's a configuration problem.  If not, you can't use shr
> (e.g. libxml support missing).
>
> Ted

Thanks, Ted. Yes, "M-x eww" prompts for an URL then gives the message

    error in process filter: eww-display-html: This function requires
    Emacs to be compiled with libxml2

So there it is! I clearly didn't build with the required library.

(I wish the Gnus MIME stuff was informative like that, instead of
silently failing!)


I have now rebuilt, configured thus:

  Where should the build process find the source code?    .
  What compiler should emacs be built with?               gcc -std=gnu99 -g3 -O2
  Should Emacs use the GNU version of malloc?             yes
      (Using Doug Lea's new malloc from the GNU C Library.)
  Should Emacs use a relocating allocator for buffers?    no
  Should Emacs use mmap(2) for buffer allocation?         no
  What window system should Emacs use?                    x11
  What toolkit should Emacs use?                          GTK3
  Where do we find X Windows header files?                Standard dirs
  Where do we find X Windows libraries?                   Standard dirs
  Does Emacs use -lXaw3d?                                 no
  Does Emacs use -lXpm?                                   yes
  Does Emacs use -ljpeg?                                  yes
  Does Emacs use -ltiff?                                  yes
  Does Emacs use a gif library?                           yes -lgif
  Does Emacs use -lpng?                                   yes
  Does Emacs use -lrsvg-2?                                yes
  Does Emacs use imagemagick?                             no
  Does Emacs support sound?                               yes
  Does Emacs use -lgpm?                                   no
  Does Emacs use -ldbus?                                  yes
  Does Emacs use -lgconf?                                 yes
  Does Emacs use GSettings?                               yes
  Does Emacs use a file notification library?             yes -lgio (gfile)
  Does Emacs use access control lists?                    yes -lacl
  Does Emacs use -lselinux?                               yes
  Does Emacs use -lgnutls?                                yes
  Does Emacs use -lxml2?                                  yes
  Does Emacs use -lfreetype?                              yes
  Does Emacs use -lm17n-flt?                              yes
  Does Emacs use -lotf?                                   yes
  Does Emacs use -lxft?                                   yes
  Does Emacs directly use zlib?                           yes
  Does Emacs use toolkit scroll bars?                     yes

HTML rendering in Gnus (and from eww) is now working, so unless anyone
can see anything glaringly wrong in this list, I think I am all good
now. :)

[Totally irrelevantly, while writing this post, I am also happy to see
that pasting now replaces selection. :)]

Out of curiosity, what would imagemagick support give me?

Thank you all and best regards,
N.