Re: Can't launch emacs in an X window

[Joel J. Adamson]

"baconbean@gmail.com" <baconbean@gmail.com> writes:

> I built GNU emacs, version 22.1, from source on my machine (running
> PCLinuxOS).

I used PCLinuxOS for a while, and I never had any systemic problems
compiling from source.  Is their repository out of date?  Texstar is
very responsive to user requests (at least he was when I was using
PCLinuxOS).  I would urge you to request a current package, as well as
an "emacs-cvs" package, if they're not including Emacs 22.

Here are my configure options for when I build Emacs from CVS on
Slackware 12.0:

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CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" ./configure \
--with-gtk --enable-font-backend --with-xft --prefix=/usr \
--enable-shared --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var \
--enable-perl=/usr/bin/perl --build=$ARCH-slackware-linux \
--host=$ARCH-slackware-linux

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I would suggeston PCLinuxOS to use --prefix=/usr/local instead, and of
course the Slackware-specific variables are useless to you ;)

Let me know how it works out for you,
Joel

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