From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@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: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:47:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ih8ia5$g9k$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ih3kd8$k1p$1@panix2.panix.com>
On 1/18/11 1:52 AM, 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?
You didn't save the output from configure, so that you could go
back and figure out what went wrong after the fact:
./configure ... 2>&1 | tee configure.log
You didn't tell us what it does look like, e.g. is it running in
its own X11 window or is it running in in the xterm (or other
terminal emulator window) in which you invoked it?
What does ldd `type emacs` show?
--
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-20 5:47 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
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 [this message]
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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