compile emacs [solved]

[Guest notebookludwig]

Hi!

 

I'm trying to compile emacs 21.4 under Mandriva 10.2. My problem is that I only get the terminal version, but not the X11 version. Using "./configure --with-x11" gives:

 

Where do we find X Windows header files? NONE

Where do we find X Windows libraries? NONE

Does Emacs use -lXaw3d? no

Does Emacs use -lXpm? no

Does Emacs use -ljpeg? no

Does Emacs use -ltiff? no

Does Emacs use -lungif? no

Does Emacs use -lpng? no

Does Emacs use X toolkit scroll bars? no

 

 

The FAQ says I might need a file called "libX11.a" -- how do I get that? What packages do I need to make this work??

 

Best,

Ludwig

 

[moved from Software by spinynorman - welcome aboard :)]

[SoulSe]

Any particular reason why you're compiling it instead of installing it with urpmi?

[scarecrow]

If there is a particular reason, then install the libxorg and libxorg-devel RPM's first.

[Guest notebookludwig]

Yeah, it worked!! I just had to get libxorg-x11-static-devel. Thanks!

 

(The reason I didn't use urpmi was that I already had the source code and didn't want to download emacs again ...)

[theYinYeti]

Sure enough, this is a good reason when you only have dial-up, or you are under similar constraints.

 

That's why it is always interesting to download the SRPM when you want the source code of something. That way, if all goes well, you can install the thing with rpmbuild --rebuild yourfile.srpm, or in some special cases:

# rpm -i yourfile.srpm
# cd /usr/src/RPM/
# vi SPECS/yourfile.spec
# rpmbuild -bb ./SPECS/yourfile.spec

 

And if all this fails, you still have the "regular" source tarball to play with, under /usr/src/RPM/.

 

Yves.