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From: barry@mesquite.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Comipiling Gnu Emacs to use X Windows
Summary: I can't!
Message-ID: <1910@sunset.MATH.UCLA.EDU>
Date: 20 Oct 89 19:43:45 GMT
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I've been trying to install gnu emacs 18.55 on my sun 3/110 for the
last couple weeks (in my spare time)---its a no go! 

[Political Note: they don't support or encourage using gnu emacs at
the UCLA math dept., because its "too big" and "too slow", so I have to 
install my own personal copy...if I get it up and running, they'll
make it publicly available, but still unsupported.]

Can someone help me bring the joys of gnu emacs to the UCLA math deptartment?


My goal is emacs with X11 support.
Here are the problems:

        After setting the appropriate paths, and selecting

        #include "s-bsd4-2.h"
        #include "m-sun3.h"

        in the config.h file, I try:

Case A: make gnu emacs with no X10 or X11 support:

        This is a test case, and it still has compilation errors. If I use
        make -i instead of make in the build-install file, I can suppress
        the errors and get a (nearly) functional copy of emacs 18.55.

        here are the errors I get during the making:

        "filelock.c", line 54: pw_name undefined
        *** Error code 1

        "fileio.c", line 604: pw_dir undefined
        *** Error code 1

        "editfns.c", line 73: pw_name undefined
        "editfns.c", line 88: pw_gecos undefined
        *** Error code 1

        The resulting emacs works, except it doesn't recongize relative
        path names---to edit a file I have to give the full path name
        staring with my home directory. I suspect there are other more
        subtle errors related to filelock.c that I haven't hit yet.

Case B: gnu emacs with X support (but not X11)

        This is getting more interesting. I select 
        #define HAVE_X_WINDOWS
        in config.h, and do build-install. I get a buch of errors
        about missing X/*.h files in includes---but that's easy, since
        UCLA math never installed X10! So, I pull the /usr/local/X/X directory off
        a more enlightened system, and also get /usr/lib/libX.a . I put
        this stuff in the emacs directory, hack the makefiles so it
        can find them, and compile again. Fine, but now I get the following
        errors: (in addition to Case A errors)

        Undefined: _XGetHardwareColor _XStoreBitmap _XOpenFont 
                   (+ about 25 other X functions).

        Which suggests that I need the contents of /usr/local/X/Xlib .
        Will I have to grab the entire /usr/local/X before make 
        stops complaining? I don't feel like owning all of X10 just
        to use emacs with X windows...

This brings us to the most interesting case,

Case C: gnu emacs with X11 support (yes, thankfully UCLA has X11 R3)

        So, I #define X11 in config.h, and do a build-install. But my launch is
        scrubbed: I get the following errors (in addition to Case A errors):
 
        Undefined:
        f68881_used
        *** Error code 1
        rm -f ../etc/DOC
        ../etc/make-docfile dispnew.o scroll.o xdisp.o window.o  term.o cm.o x11term.o

  [long list of *.o *.el *.elc files deleted]

        lisp/buff-menu.elc ../lisp/subr.elc ../lisp/version.el > ../etc/DOC^M
        ./temacs -batch -l inc-vers
        Make: Cannot load ./temacs.  Stop.
        
        And thats it. No executable emacs is produced. But It does seem to compile
        x11term and x11fns OK, at least.
 
So, how can I get emacs with X11 R3 to work? If it helps, note
that we do have /usr/lib/libX11.a in place.


Up with gnu emacs 18.55! (and soon, I hope...)

-Barry Merriman