From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help 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) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <8ab6b334-0b1c-4b3b-b909-56ff36cd9359@n32g2000pre.googlegroups.com> References: <43d05e92-a88d-4f72-936f-a86a56c2c100@i32g2000pri.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1295372777 408 80.91.229.12 (18 Jan 2011 17:46:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:46:17 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 18 18:46:12 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PfFdD-0003pv-In for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 18:46:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55511 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PfFdC-00052k-MP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:46:10 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!n32g2000pre.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 47 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 116.73.35.230 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1295371841 30713 127.0.0.1 (18 Jan 2011 17:30:41 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:30:41 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: n32g2000pre.googlegroups.com; posting-host=116.73.35.230; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:184384 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:78548 Archived-At: On Jan 18, 10:16=A0pm, rusi wrote: > On Jan 18, 1:52=A0pm, dkco...@panix.com (David Combs) wrote: > > > > > Just made an emacs (23.1) on Solaris 10 sparc. =A0Was > > using gnome when I did it. > > > ./configure =A0... ... --with-gif=3Dno =A0... > > > 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=3Dno because, on comp.unix.solaris, =A0that 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. =A0What 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? =A0(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. =A0SURELY 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