feedAntialiased Emacs on Ubuntu
November 13, 2006 | 
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Two weeks ago: "I think, but am not sure, that my anti-aliased Emacs crashes intermittently. As in poof, utterly gone. I really want to be imagining this one."
That turned out to be non-imginary. Emacs would shut down with no warning, no messages. Just gone. Since I use Emacs to hold temp files and bits and pieces in buffers over the course of the day, it needs to be stable. If neccessary I'd go back to a regular install.
The first time around I had problems building the antialiased version; so I used a premade .deb, and this is the one that shuts down. The chances are the .deb was fine but my local configuration wasn't. In trying to build from scratch again, it turned out the problems were done to not having libxt-dev and libncurses5-dev installed as build prerequisites. That meant /.configure would not find X headers. So make might fail, and if it didn't the compiled Emacs would run in terminal mode (in the latter case if you don't have libncurses5-dev you'll get a termcap error when starting Emacs).
Anyway, The following incantation worked for me on 6.06. Before I started I removed everything emacs related from Ubuntu via synaptic (by searching for emacs and taking the uninstall option).
sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev sudo apt-get install libxt-dev sudo apt-get -f install emacs-snapshot-gtk cd /opt sudo cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/cvsroot/emacs co emacs cd emacs sudo cvs up -Pd -r XFT_JHD_BRANCH sudo ./configure --with-x-toolkit=gtk --with-xft=yes --prefix=/usr sudo make bootstrap && make sudo rm /etc/alternatives/emacs sudo ln -s /opt/emacs/src/emacs /etc/alternatives/emacs
The difference between this and another incantation going around is slight - including the the two libraries at the beginning and scrubbing anything emacs related from your OS.
November 13, 2006 10:13 AM
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