Emacs and X

Emacs and X

[Ben Van Poppel]

Hi all.

I'm about to reinstall Emacs, having reinstalled my sstem due to its 
breaking its previously breaking its poor electronic neck. I'm installing 
Slackware v3.10 from CD, but since it only comes with Emacs 19.31, I'm 
installing Emacs 20.2 from the GNU source-code CDRom. I used this 
previously when I didn't have X, but this time I'm installing X as well. 
Can I compile Emacs with the standard "./configure", "make" and "make 
install", or do I need to tell it explicitly to use X libraries already 
on my system?

Thanks.
Ben

Re: Emacs and X

[Dave Hunt]

If X is already installed, the 'config' script will find it,
supposedly.  You acn also run 'make config --with-x=yes'.  If the x
libraries are in a non-standard place, you'll have to tell 'config'
where they are.  See the docs for details.


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Regards,
Dave Hunt
Amateur Radio:  wx1g

Re: Emacs and X

[wlestes]

> installing Emacs 20.2 from the GNU source-code CDRom. I used this 
> previously when I didn't have X, but this time I'm installing X as well. 
> Can I compile Emacs with the standard "./configure", "make" and "make 
> install", or do I need to tell it explicitly to use X libraries already 
> on my system?

1) yes

2) this is in the installation instructions that are shipped with
   emacs-20.2; read them--they may tell you some other things you want
   to know.