bug#26761: [Christoph Groth] Re: bug#26761: 25.1; Emacs freezes when scrolling with mouse wheel

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: npostavs@users.sourceforge.net
> Date: Thu, 04 May 2017 18:28:15 -0400
> 
> Thanks, Noam, that worked.  I can now confirm that the problem 
> does not show up with bleeding-edge Emacs.  I double-checked that 
> I continue to see it with the other builds.

Thanks, this is important information.

> So it seems that either the problem got fixed, or it is a problem 
> that is introduced through Debian packaging.  In order to find out 
> who is the culprit I checked out the tag emacs-24.5 from git and 
> tried to compile, but there's a problem.  Running "./autoconf.sh" 
> gives:
> 
> ./autogen.sh           
> Checking whether you have the necessary tools...
> (Read INSTALL.REPO for more details on building Emacs)
> 
> Checking for autoconf (need at least version 2.65)...
> ok
> Checking for automake (need at least version 1.11)...
> ok
> Your system has the required tools.
> Running 'autoreconf -fi -I m4' ...
> /usr/bin/m4:aclocal.m4:9: cannot open `m4/count-leading-zeros.m4': 
> No such file or directory
> /usr/bin/m4:aclocal.m4:27: cannot open `m4/flexmember.m4': No such 
> file or directory
> /usr/bin/m4:aclocal.m4:43: cannot open `m4/limits-h.m4': No such 
> file or directory
> /usr/bin/m4:aclocal.m4:44: cannot open `m4/localtime-buffer.m4': 
> No such file or directory
> /usr/bin/m4:aclocal.m4:72: cannot open `m4/std-gnu11.m4': No such 
> file or directory
> autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
> /usr/bin/m4:aclocal.m4:9: cannot open `m4/count-leading-zeros.m4': 
> No such file or directory
> /usr/bin/m4:aclocal.m4:27: cannot open `m4/flexmember.m4': No such 
> file or directory
> /usr/bin/m4:aclocal.m4:43: cannot open `m4/limits-h.m4': No such 
> file or directory
> /usr/bin/m4:aclocal.m4:44: cannot open `m4/localtime-buffer.m4': 
> No such file or directory
> /usr/bin/m4:aclocal.m4:72: cannot open `m4/std-gnu11.m4': No such 
> file or directory
> autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
> autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1

You should be better off building Emacs 24.5 from the source tarball
available from the GNU FTP site and its mirrors.  There, the
autogen.sh script was already run and its products are in the tarball,
so you can start from running the configure script.

Thanks.