Re: troubles compiling emacs26.1 on ubuntu18.04

[Le TeXnicien de Surface]

Le 28/10/2018 à 12:49, Javier a écrit :
> Le TeXnicien de Surface <le.texnicien.de.surface@orange.fr> wrote:
> > hello all
> >
> > I'm trying to compile emacs26.1 on my ubuntu18.04
> > the configuration stage works well
> > I've just got a warning about GTK+ and a possible crash
> > in case of many instances
> > The make phase stalls with this message:
> >
> > ...
>
> The default build has too many dependencies.  If you want to get
> something compiled without much hassle just disable dependencies in
> the build.
>
> It looks like you are using libcairo, which is experimental.
> What options are you using for ./configure?
>
> Look at ./configure --help
>
> ./configure --help | grep -i cairo
>    --with-cairo            compile with Cairo drawing (experimental)
>      CAIRO_CFLAGS
>                    C compiler flags for CAIRO, overriding pkg-config
>                      CAIRO_LIBS  linker flags for CAIRO, overriding pkg-config

It appears that cairo is not used by default with what I've got.

> Also try a lighter toolkit.
>
> --with-x-toolkit=KIT (KIT one of: yes or gtk, gtk2, gtk3, lucid or athena, 
> motif, no)

that did the trick! I've compiled with gtk3 and it worked.

many thanks

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YH TeXnicien de surface