Steve Holmes <steve.holmes88@gmail.com> writes:
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 09:12:12PM +1000, Mike Sampson wrote: I switched to emacs-nox from community which works fine. I may even
keep using it as it obviously has significantly less dependencies than emacs compiled with X support.
Well, it seems that it is fixed now. I see we have emacs-23.4-2 so I wonder if our devs patched or something. All good from my vantage point.
FWIW, I build emacs from trunk pretty regularly, and it's really stable. I've had to look to the lists for a build faliure once over the last two years, and it was fixed the next day anyhow. I have a script in ~/bin with something like: cd $HOME/workspace/emacs bzr pull (make || make bootstrap && make) && sudo make install in it. I occasionally need to recompile due to system updates. Unless you're really tied to 23.4, I recommend giving it a shot -- there's a lot of improvements, and I actually run into *fewer* problems with things getting broken then when I run emacs from distro packages.