Re: question about colours
Basile STARYNKEVITCH <[email protected]>
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On Fri, 2026-08-07 at 18:59 +0200, [email protected] wrote: > On 2026-08-06, at 13:11, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > [...] you will > > have to compile Emacs yourself [...] > > Let me add that this is way less hard/scary than people might think. > Unless you need some special finetuning (which almost certainly you > don't), it's (more or less) > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/emacs.git > sudo apt install <a list of dependencies> # <-- the most complicated > step > make I am actually git pull-ing and compiling GNU emacs myself (in addition of the Debian system provided one). I am doing this since many years. * it is a good test of your hardware * it takes a reasonable amount of time (e.g. enough to drink coffee with colleagues and bosses), unlike compilation of GCC (gcc.gnu.org) which does take half a day when you are used to do so (see https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.0779 ...) * it requires about 2.5 gigabytes of disk space (after build) * it gives you the newest GNU emacs So on my Debian/Trixie (I have root access) I git clone-d emacs under /usr/src/Editors/emacs and I configured it as: './configure' 'CC=/usr/bin/gcc-16' 'CFLAGS=-O2 -g -fPIE -fPIC' \ '--with-x' '--with-native-compilation' \ '--with-file-notification=inotify' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk3' \ '--with-dbus' '--with-jpeg' '--with-tiff' '--program-suffix=-trunk' the with-native-compilation requires a recent GCC compiler (not a Clang one) providing libgccjit BTW a summer project for GNU emacs could be to interface it to GNU lightning (a library generating machine code independently of GCC). At last, the free software project I am developing with others (see refpersys.org) is a GPL licensed inference engine (for expert systems). Help and suggestions are welcome. regards from near Paris in France -- Basile STARYNKEVITCH <[email protected]> 8 rue de la Faïencerie http://starynkevitch.net/Basile/ 92340 Bourg-la-Reine https://github.com/bstarynk France https://github.com/RefPerSys/RefPerSys https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0908-5250