Re: Build emacs on debian

[Bob Proulx]

Harry Putnam wrote:
> I'm running into errors I've hit before and recognize but do not
> recall which pkgs were necessary to make configure work.

The easiest thing is to start with whatever the Debian packager
thought was needed for the Debian package.

  # apt-get build-dep emacs24

That will install the build dependencies as declared in the packaged
files.  You might want something more or less but that is a good start.

Bob