From: rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: just now made an emacs (on gnome). Problem: thinks I'm vt100 or something!
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 09:30:41 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8ab6b334-0b1c-4b3b-b909-56ff36cd9359@n32g2000pre.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 43d05e92-a88d-4f72-936f-a86a56c2c100@i32g2000pri.googlegroups.com
On Jan 18, 10:16 pm, rusi <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 18, 1:52 pm, dkco...@panix.com (David Combs) wrote:
>
>
>
> > Just made an emacs (23.1) on Solaris 10 sparc. 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!
>
> What happens if you turn on gif?
On second thought I dont expect that to be the issue.
More likely to be gtk or X or ... development files needed
Have a careful look at the 'no's' in the output of configure
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-18 17:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-18 8:52 just now made an emacs (on gnome). Problem: thinks I'm vt100 or something! David Combs
2011-01-18 17:16 ` rusi
2011-01-18 17:30 ` rusi [this message]
2011-01-18 18:12 ` Jason Earl
2011-01-18 19:36 ` David Combs
2011-01-18 21:12 ` Tim X
2011-01-21 1:40 ` David Combs
2011-01-21 7:44 ` Tim X
2011-01-20 5:47 ` Kevin Rodgers
2011-01-20 6:00 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-01-21 1:45 ` David Combs
2011-01-20 15:14 ` Steph
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