I have installed emacs 20.7 into a private/local area. I have checked in the epaths.h that and load-path is correct and points to the lisp directory. When I am done installing I can open an run emacs - once/first time and everytime works. It finds the lisp files and the path. If I keep this emacs open and open another emacs - the second emacs cannot find any lisp files and acts like it has the wrong load-path but I cannot check since "view" file cannot be fount to open. (I have tried with a .emacs that has the correct load-path specified and without .emacs). Finally if I close all the emacs programs (including the first) then all other emacs that open never finds the lisp file path again.

I would say the compile or epaths.h setting were wrong but the first emacs after install works great but only that emacs and I cannot ever exit it - then emacs never works again.

I am trying to install it on a SUN sparc 2.6. Any help so it can find the lisp directory after install. I have checked the load-path. The machine also has Xemacs 19.4 installed in the usr/local area.