Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 14:38:57 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org> To: Mark Hannon <mark@putte.seeware.DIALix.oz.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xemacs error Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970207143615.3118D-100000@narcissus.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <E58E4y.GC.L.doorway@seeware.DIALix.oz.au>
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On Fri, 7 Feb 1997, Mark Hannon wrote: > In article <Pine.BSF.3.91.970206005622.11470B-100000@narcissus.ml.org>, > ben@narcissus.ml.org (Stranger Bone) writes: > > I recompiled and reinstalled xemacs (don't ask why) and now it won't > > start. I get the following message: > > > > Initialization error: Cannot open load file: term/generic-win > > > > There's a lot of other crud too but I think this is the important part. > > I can post the rest if necessary. > > > > The only thing I can think of is that I installed Lesstif since the last > > time I compiled xemacs. But I doubt it's related. > > > > I would suspect that it is related. I assume that you used the > ./configure script in xemacs?? In that case the Motif (lesstiff) > headers would have been found and used. You can check this by > seeing if motif is linked into the binary (with ldd xemacs). Actually, I just ran "make". In the end I resolved this by downloading the binary distribution of Xemacs 19.14 directly from Xemacs site. It still wanted that libgcc.so.261.0, which archie couldn't find, but an Altavista search of all things turned up an ftp url to I think somewhere on Doug White's site. So now I'm happy and it works. Thanks for your help though. > I think that there is some option to the configure script to > get it to ignore any found motif libraries. > > /mark > > -- > +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ > | Mark Hannon,| FreeBSD, Free Unix for your PC | mark@seeware.DIALix.oz.au| > | Melbourne, | PGP key available by fingering | epamha@epa.ericsson.se | > | Australia | seeware@melbourne.DIALix.oz.au | | > +-=-=-=-=-=-=-+-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ > Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."
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