Re: just now made an emacs (on gnome). Problem: thinks I'm vt100 or something!

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) writes:

> 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 need --with-x to get an X gui.

Here is what I use:

    ./configure --prefix=/opt/emacs-${emacs_version}  \
            --with-x \
            --with-xpm \
            --with-jpeg \
            --with-tiff \
            --with-gif \
            --with-png \
        --with-rsvg \
        --with-xft \
        --with-libotf \
        --with-sound \
            --with-x-toolkit=no \
            --without-toolkit-scroll-bars \
            --x-includes=/usr/X11/include \
            --x-libraries=/usr/X11/lib \
        && make \
        && make install 

Of course, if you want some specific X toolkit, you will use something
else than no there.

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