From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: fork Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs 23.3 with no X window Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 22:34:21 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <5AADF550-416B-4BE0-8D5B-E80C35046ACA@Web.DE> <11C23DF5-E7A9-429F-8DA7-6A35E2D417A7@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1313794197 6426 80.91.229.12 (19 Aug 2011 22:49:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 22:49:57 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 20 00:49:53 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QuXsv-00063I-5X for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 00:49:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42605 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QuXeI-0003q3-Uh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 18:34:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:52378) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QuXeE-0003pL-K2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 18:34:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QuXe7-0005Uo-Ej for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 18:34:42 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:33525) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QuXe7-0005UQ-6s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 18:34:35 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QuXe5-0001wJ-FG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 00:34:33 +0200 Original-Received: from 198.239.99.92 ([198.239.99.92]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 00:34:33 +0200 Original-Received: from forkandwait by 198.239.99.92 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 00:34:33 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 198.239.99.92 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:6.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:81993 Archived-At: Jai Dayal gmail.com> writes: > If I don't configure with prefix, I receive no errors on make and (sudo) make install but when I do emacs --version, i still says 22.1.1, and NOT 23.3 Try running "which emacs" from the prompt -- that will tell you the full path of the program. Then try running emacs from the full path -- something like /usr/local/bin/emacs or whatever. See if that solves your problem. My guess is that your PATH settings need to be changed -- I always put my /usr/local stuff in front. One last thing -- please don't top post...