YDL 2.3/XEmacs

[Stefan Bruda]

At 18:28 -0700 on 8-8-2002 art wrote:
 >
 >  . Can't build Xemacs yet because the Xemacs configurator can't find the
 >    X libraries. Anyone know what RPM I need to install? (It doesn't
 >    seem to be XFree86, XFree86-libs, or XFree86-devel ...) Please,
 >    Mr. Yellowdog, put Xemacs in the distribution!

I am a huge fan of XEmacs, and I do almost anything in there (sending
mail is only one of these), so I really feel your pain.

However, in YDL 2.2 anyway, XEmacs RPMs are actually on the Tasty
Morsels CD.  Check it out, I see no reason for them not to be included
in YDL 2.3.

If you still want to compile your own XEmacs (as i did, the YDL RPM
was not compiled with ESD sound support between other things), note
that I had problems in building anything over 21.4.5 (or 21.4.4, I am
not sure).  I don't quite remember the actual errors, but they did
have something to do with X libraries not being found, and thus they
look similar to yours.

It turns out that the problem was XEmacs' configure script!  It
insisted in trying to include some x86 library which, understandably,
was nowhere to be found.  Here is how I solved the problem: I got
_both_ 21.4.5 (failing this, 21.4.4, see above) and 21.4.8 tarballs, I
uncompressed the first and threw the result away _except_ the
configure script.  This one I saved and copied over its 21.4.8
counterpart.  Everything went smoothly afterwards (./configure
[various options]; make; make install), and as you can see from the
X-Mailer header of this message I am successfully running XEmacs
21.4.8 ("Honest Recruiter" :-) ) for quite some time by now.

Alternatively, you can download and install 21.4.5.  Or 21.4.4, the
latest that does not need any tweaking anyway.  I have not seen major
problems with 21.4.4 (that I used for a long time) as compared to
21.4.8.

Stefan

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