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From: sfeam <sfeam@users.sourceforge.net>
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Subject: Re: cvs version failed to compile.
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Hongyi Zhao wrote:

> The emacs must be installed for the manual's generation of gnuplot.
> 
> werner@debian:~$ sudo apt-get install libc-dev emacs

Something has gone wrong in your configuration.
It is definitely _not_ necessary to have emacs installed before
building gnuplot or the documentation.
Can you show us the error message?