Building emacs 23 for RHEL5

Building emacs 23 for RHEL5

[Ken Goldman]

I'm trying to upgrade my existing emacs 21 to 23.

This is Linux RHEL5, 32-bit Intel.

When I build, I get:

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configure: error: The following required libraries were not found:
     libXpm libjpeg libpng libgif/libungif libtiff
Maybe some development libraries/packages are missing?
If you don't want to link with them give
     --with-xpm=no --with-jpeg=no --with-png=no --with-gif=no --with-tiff=no

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When I compile without them, emacs runs but is really ugly, fonts
are wrong, menus don't pop up,, etc.

I tried to install xpm-devel, but wound up in the usual bottomless pit 
of missing dependencies.

Is there an rpm for emacs-23 that I can just install that includes 
everything it needs?

Re: Building emacs 23 for RHEL5

[Ken Goldman]

Following up my own post, I installed the development libraries for xpm, 
png, gif, and tiff.  I then compiled from source.  No change.

What I see is that:

The menu bar (File, Edit ...) is in a very flat, Courier typeface. 
Menus don't nest.  They display a > character that has to be cliecked to 
display the next menu.

The tool bar is black and grey, not colored.

C-left mouse or S-left mouse again brings up flat, Courier menus that do 
not nest.

The "about" screen does display the graphical emacs logo.

What did I miss?

~~~~~~~~

emacs 21, which was preinstalled from a yum repository, looks fine.

On 05/12/2011 02:58 PM, Ken Goldman wrote:
> I'm trying to upgrade my existing emacs 21 to 23.
>
> This is Linux RHEL5, 32-bit Intel.
>

Re: Building emacs 23 for RHEL5

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 12.05.2011 um 22:37 schrieb Ken Goldman:

> What did I miss?

You need to re-configure after you've installed some missing pieces.

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Re: Building emacs 23 for RHEL5

[Glenn Morris]

I would guess that you have built a version with no X-toolkit, so it is
falling back to some old internal implementation. Check the end of
configure's output, where it says what features Emacs will be built
with: "What toolkit should Emacs use?" Also check for the image support here.

It sounds like your systems is/was missing a lot of development
libraries. Try:

yum install gtk2 gtk2-devel glib2 glib2-devel

and re-configure.