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Re: problems building emacs with libgpm & gnutls on an old Debian system
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Robert Pluim |
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Re: problems building emacs with libgpm & gnutls on an old Debian system (Jessie) |
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Mon, 10 Aug 2020 16:21:28 +0200 |
>>>>> On Mon, 10 Aug 2020 15:10:28 +0100, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> said:
Eric> On Monday, 10 Aug 2020 at 15:01, Robert Pluim wrote:
>> Glad it worked. Which millenium was this sytem from again? ;-)
Eric> Software 6 years old and hardware 10 years old which in computing
means
Eric> 16th century? ;-)
GNU/Linux distributions tend to move quite fast.
>> Emacs uses gnulib for this kind of stuff, and since itʼs all low-level
>> system calls, there are no configure level switches for turning it
>> off. Itʼs not like itʼs TLS support or an image library, which are
optional.
Eric> Understood. Sounds reasonable. At least I know what I have to do
now.
Eric> Thanks again for all your help (and your patience!),
Iʼm not a patient person, I just play one on the Internet :-)
Robert