Re: Emacs21 in Hurd.

[Bijan Soleymani]

Ole Andre Birkedal <oandre-b@online.no> writes:

> 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.

Which user are you logged in as. I think I had similar trouble once
when I used su to become root. 

Also I think suid binaries won't use LD_LIBRARY_PATH for security
reasons, but I don't see why your emacs would be suid.

Bijan