Re: emacs 23 & Debian

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 26.06.2009 um 03:37 schrieb Giorgos Keramidas:

> While you are at it, it may also be useful to list dependencies
> like `libm17n-dev' for multilingual text support, `libpng12-dev'
> and `librsvg2-dev' for more image formats, and `libotf-dev' for
> OpenType font support.

Do these dev packages also contain the shared libraries? There is one  
other package for multilingual text support checked for by the  
configure script: m17n-flt. I have to admit that I don't know  
anything of it… (although I'd like to fetch one soon day the source,  
compile, and install it on my Mac)


Nurullah's list is not really complete (the JPEG, GIF, TIFF dev  
packages should be standard). GTK is the default choice now, but it's  
also possible to use Xaw3d. Among the non-X11 graphics packages not  
named yet is Xpm. To work in a terminal emulation ncurses are needed.  
To use fonts libfontconfig and libfreetype are needed. For desktop  
integration libdbus can be used. And to be able to convert between  
the many encodings GNU Emacs supports libintl and libiconv are used.  
In a modern X11 installation Pango gets used, and also Glitz and  
Cairo and Pixman. Have I mentioned libexpat?

Running configure will reveal what all gets checked. And you can also  
check which shared libraries GNU Emacs uses…

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  Pete

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