Re: Emacs21 in Hurd.

[Ole Andre Birkedal]

kilobug@freesurf.fr (Gaël Le Mignot) writes:

> Hello Ole!
>
> Sun, 22 Jun 2003 03:18:14 +0200, you wrote: 
>
>  > Hello there.
>
> Hello !
>
>  > I am trying to run Emacs21 in hurd.
>  > When i run `emacs` it gives me an error
>  > saying it can't find libXaw3d, but I do
>  > have libXaw3d installed, and the library
>  > file which it is asking for (libXaw3d.so.6)
>  > is located in my libdirectory which is also
>  > a path to in /etc/ld.so.conf, and I did run
>  > `ldconfig`, so I really have no idea what
>  > could be wrong here.
>
> ld.so.conf is not used on GNU/Hurd.
> You should use the environement variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
I tried that just now, i set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /X11R6/lib where
the libXaw3d.so.6 file were located, but still no luck.
I also tried running ldconfig after that, but didn't do much.
> In the future, all the  librabries should (virtually) be in /lib using
> a UnionFS (or ShadowFS) translator.
>
> Also take note that there is a bug in xlib, and Emacs doesn't run in X
> mode (use emacs -nw if you run it from X)
I am not running Emacs in Xfree, and even if i supply the -nw
argument it complains about the library which it can not find.
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