Re: Should libXt-devel be required to build Emacs?

[Jan Djärv]

Henrik Enberg skrev:

> Hmm, no I did not have 2.6.1.  I did in fact not have autoconf installed
> at all when it failed to find X, my shell history file reveals that I
> installed libXt-dev and autoconf at the same time.  Does this then mean
> that Emacs requires autoconf when just running configure?  Isn't the
> point of the autotools suite that only people who _generate_ the build
> scripts need them?

A normal user shall not be required to have autoconf at all.  Check the top of 
configure and see what version it was generated with.

        Jan D.