Re: Emacs splash screen [was: Re: [tlug] lynx proxy settings

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Nguyen Vu Hung writes:

 > 2007/9/19, burlingk@example.com <burlingk@example.com>:
 > > Hehehe, vim still does what I want it to do. >:P
 > 
 > I don't know what is happening inside emacs dev team, but it seems
 > that they are doing something upward by supporting X in emacs 23.

Huh?  No, what's happening is that distros are assuming that you are a
luser, and making sure you won't encounter any sharp objects that
might give you a paper cut or a blister on your little finger.
Nowadays you have to prove yourself before they'll let you have the
header files and debug libraries. :-(  (Yeah, I know, it saves a lot
of space and bandwidth, but a full distro should be the default, and
the user should be offered the option to omit -dev packages to save on
space and bandwidth.)

 > configure: error: You seem to be running X, but no X development
 > libraries were found.

That's just a somewhat more user-friendly message than it used to be,
where it said you had no X libraries at all.  Of course, it's still
incorrect; what is almost surely missing is the headers, not the
libraries.  Normally you'll link against the same dynamic libraries
that are loaded by ld-linux.so at runtime, not anything provided by
the -dev package.