Re: tarball builds

[Stefan Monnier]

>> I have the impression that the same holds for Mac OS X and for Windows
> I don't use either OS, but I do still use Solaris 10 and the default
> installs on Solaris 10 (which is still shipping!) lack many developer tools
> like Autoconf.

But does it come with the other things we require (libgnutls, libpng, ...)?
If not, what steps are usually used to bring those dependencies?

If they're usually brought from some kind of package management system
like Fink/Macports/APT/RPM then adding more dependencies shouldn't make
much difference.

> because they want to try Emacs out on a less-common platform, or they want
> to use the latest version of Emacs when their distribution has an
> earlier version.

For GNU/Linux, as mentioned, compiling the latest is easy because you
just need a single command to bring in all the needed packages (no
matter how many there are).


        Stefan