Re: problems during installation of XEmacs 21.0

Jan> Heiko Muenkel <muenkel(a)tnt.uni-hannover.de&gt; writes: Jan> This is probably a configure failure. Jan> --with-gif --with-xpm --with-xface --with-ncurses --with-gpm Jan> all of these should be unnecessary as they are Jan> autodetected. Try finding out why configure does not do so Jan> and your problem is probably solved. Jan> Golden rule of configure: Never --with-anything=yes that is Jan> on by default. Forcing it just hides the problem and causes Jan> other problems to appear. Jan> Jan Heiko> Ok. I've tried it now with the following configure options and 21.0/b57: Heiko> ../configure --prefix=/prog/xemacs/21.0 Heiko> --exec-prefix=/prog/xemacs/21.0/$CONFIG --with-pop --with-site-lisp Heiko> --with-sound=both --error-checking=none Heiko> --site-libraries=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH} --site-includes=${C_INCLUDE_PATH} Does your C_INCLUDE_PATH point to /usr/include/linux ? If so, why? Does a very simple `./configure; make' work? Heiko> and got the same problem. I've found out, that ULONG_MAX will be Heiko> defined in /usr/include/limits.h only, if the C-compiler isn't the gcc Heiko> version greater 2 (__GNUC__ >= 2). A gcc 2.x will read instead Heiko> /usr/include/linux/limits.h, but in this file there's no definition of Heiko> ULONG_MAX. With the wrong limits.h, MANY things will stop working. Martin