From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs 23.3 with no X window Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 10:37:25 +0200 Message-ID: References: <5AADF550-416B-4BE0-8D5B-E80C35046ACA@Web.DE> <11C23DF5-E7A9-429F-8DA7-6A35E2D417A7@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1313829474 13232 80.91.229.12 (20 Aug 2011 08:37:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 08:37:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs To: Jai Dayal Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 20 10:37:50 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Quh3u-0001vp-Ji for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 10:37:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53058 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Quh3t-0005oB-CW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 04:37:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:58471) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Quh3o-0005o6-Qi for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 04:37:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Quh3n-0002Oc-Ql for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 04:37:44 -0400 Original-Received: from fmmailgate01.web.de ([217.72.192.221]:50942) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Quh3n-0002OU-Ey for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 04:37:43 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp02.web.de ( [172.20.0.184]) by fmmailgate01.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id E66681958F774; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 10:37:26 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [88.153.242.186] (helo=peter-dyballas-macbook-pro.fritz.box) by smtp02.web.de with asmtp (WEB.DE 4.110 #2) id 1Quh3W-00030I-00; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 10:37:26 +0200 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) X-Sender: Peter_Dyballa@web.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18xYsC0UMlNwLD3Vy+z9oKUtBYi8GLefLW5jVFt xDX+TP4P6IasLAk+FW7rN/kzVin/cLVL5lQQMSfvDfIPue/jSh 4sWyxN/6LBg7BNhQzWeQ== X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-Received-From: 217.72.192.221 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:81997 Archived-At: Am 19.08.2011 um 23:50 schrieb Jai Dayal: > That isn't in the INSTALL file. Do you have any suggestions on how to = do > that? Make the current working directory in *shell* buffer (or such) that with = the root of the GNU Emacs sources. The configure script must be here. Or = open this directory in dired-mode. Then type M-x compile RET, erase the = default text in mini-buffer and type instead: ./configure RET. A *compilation* buffer will open. It is read-only and = searchable. Search for text like 'checking for library containing = tputs...'. You can also search for this text in the file config.log. = Around this line you'll find the cause why libncurses was not found or = found to be unusable. Then, based on these findings, make the configure = script find (an usable) libncurses. If you have no idea, then read a bit = in GNU Emacs' info-mode about configure and gcc. In order to find = libncurses the C compiler needs to find the corresponding C header files = (presumingly not that important, maybe unused, performed with arguments = to the -I switch) and particularly the library file itself. With the = switch -L you can point the C compiler to a directory containing the = shared (or dynamic) library's file, presumingly /usr/lib or = /Developer/SDKs//usr/lib. -- Greetings Pete Who the fsck is "General Failure," and why is he reading my disk?