Re: problem build emacs 23 with x support

[eric5931 <eric5931@gmail.com>]

On Oct 14, 6:43 pm, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
wrote:
> eric5931 <eric5...@gmail.com> writes:
> > I'm trying to build gnu emacs 23.2 with X support. I solved all the
> > warnings by "configure". But the resulted emacs just run with no
> > windows. I'd appreciate any help.
>
> 1- ensure you have a DISPLAY environment variable referencing your
>    current display.  Usually, it means:
>
>        export DISPLAY=:0.0
Pascal,

Thanks very much. This is the cause and it is solved now.

Eric

>        emacs
>
>    You may also launch emacs with an explicit display:
>
>       emacs --display :0.0
>
> 2- If that doesn't work, check the compilation logs.  Perhaps it
>    couldn't find X libraries, so it configured a version without X
>    anyways.  Then you'll have to find out why it cannot find the X
>    libraries it needs, and pass additionnal options to configure to let
>    it know where yours are.
>
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