From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Earl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: just now made an emacs (on gnome). Problem: thinks I'm vt100 or something! 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Was > using gnome when I did it. > > ./configure ... ... --with-gif=no ... > > Now, I thought that the use for libgif (or giflib?) was > so that you could show *photographs*, things like that. > > (I used the with-gif=no because, on comp.unix.solaris, that was > how I was told to do the configure.) > > Anyway, that and the make (gmake) worked ok. > > And when I actually ran the newly-built emacs (in ../src/), > hooray!, I finally had an emacs on this otherwise naked machine. > > But it sure didn't look like the ntemacs I'm running on xp, > with the large fancy colorful "script" EMACS it showed on > starting up. > > No such luck. What I got was like 30 years ago emacs running > on an ADM-3a or vt-100: took no advantage of the gnome gui > it was running under. > > Question: could that "no gif" do that? (I hope not!) > > So, what might I have done wrong? > > --- > > I was executing it from terminal-window's tcsh command-line, > rather than by clicking an icon. SURELY that has nothing > to do with it -- but do tell me if I'm wrong. > > > Thanks for any advice! > > > David ./configure generates a report near the end of its output that is helpful for debugging this sort of stuff. Autoconf probably should include it in config.log too. My config.log is 8442 lines, what's another 33 lines among friends. Here's the bit that I am talking about from my machine. --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- Configured for `i686-pc-linux-gnu'. Where should the build process find the source code? /home/jearl/projects/emacs What operating system and machine description files should Emacs use? `s/gnu-linux.h' What compiler should emacs be built with? gcc -g -O2 Should Emacs use the GNU version of malloc? yes (Using Doug Lea's new malloc from the GNU C Library.) Should Emacs use a relocating allocator for buffers? no Should Emacs use mmap(2) for buffer allocation? no What window system should Emacs use? x11 What toolkit should Emacs use? GTK Where do we find X Windows header files? Standard dirs Where do we find X Windows libraries? Standard dirs Does Emacs use -lXaw3d? no Does Emacs use -lXpm? yes Does Emacs use -ljpeg? yes Does Emacs use -ltiff? yes Does Emacs use a gif library? yes -lgif Does Emacs use -lpng? yes Does Emacs use -lrsvg-2? yes Does Emacs use imagemagick? yes Does Emacs use -lgpm? no Does Emacs use -ldbus? yes Does Emacs use -lgconf? yes Does Emacs use -lselinux? no Does Emacs use -lgnutls? yes Does Emacs use -lxml2? yes Does Emacs use -lfreetype? yes Does Emacs use -lm17n-flt? no Does Emacs use -lotf? yes Does Emacs use -lxft? yes Does Emacs use toolkit scroll bars? yes --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- The important bit, in this case, is not whether emacs is configured to use a gif library, but rather that it is configured to use X Windows at all. As an example here's what I get when I configure emacs on a machine without X installed: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- Configured for `i686-pc-linux-gnu'. Where should the build process find the source code? /home/jearl/projects/emacs What operating system and machine description files should Emacs use? `s/gnu-linux.h' What compiler should emacs be built with? gcc -g -O2 Should Emacs use the GNU version of malloc? yes (Using Doug Lea's new malloc from the GNU C Library.) Should Emacs use a relocating allocator for buffers? no Should Emacs use mmap(2) for buffer allocation? no What window system should Emacs use? none What toolkit should Emacs use? none Where do we find X Windows header files? NONE Where do we find X Windows libraries? NONE Does Emacs use -lXaw3d? no Does Emacs use -lXpm? no Does Emacs use -ljpeg? no Does Emacs use -ltiff? no Does Emacs use a gif library? no Does Emacs use -lpng? no Does Emacs use -lrsvg-2? no Does Emacs use imagemagick? no Does Emacs use -lgpm? no Does Emacs use -ldbus? no Does Emacs use -lgconf? no Does Emacs use -lselinux? no Does Emacs use -lgnutls? no Does Emacs use -lxml2? no Does Emacs use -lfreetype? no Does Emacs use -lm17n-flt? no Does Emacs use -lotf? no Does Emacs use -lxft? no Does Emacs use toolkit scroll bars? no --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Of course, to get that output I had to do: ./configure --without-makeinfo --without-x My guess is that somehow your emacs did not get built with X Windows support. Jason