Re: return first element in list with certain property

[Alexis]

Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com> writes:

> Compiling Emacs is a non-starter because there are too many 
> build
> options and nobody understands them except distro builders and 
> the
> Emacs maintainers.

As a data point: i use Debian, am neither a distro builder nor an 
Emacs
maintainer, but nevertheless compile Emacs myself. Once the 
development
libraries are installed - and i only need to do so manually once 
per
Debian installation - all i need to do is unpack the Emacs 
tarball, cd
to the unpacked directory, and do the usual:

$ ./configure && make && make install

which, in my experience, Does The Right Thing.


Alexis.