On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 06:43, Lynn David Newton wrote:
   fs> Try configuring with --pdump. Alternatively, you
   fs> can try out my RPMs for RH8 at
   fs> <
http://cachalot.ods.org/>.
 
 Thank you, --pdump worked. Prior to that I tried the
 RPM, but it would not install because of some
 dependency ... a missing library. (I've forgotten what
 it said, but I think it said "pc" somewhere in it.) 
Hmm, I don't know about those any more, I'm using apt myself.  In case
you're not familiar with it yet, take a look at:
<
http://psyche.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=244>
<
http://freshrpms.net/apt/>
 First of all ... I've been keeping my packages
 reasonably up to date lately. Is it a true statement
 that I should just be able to compile xemacs, load it,
 and do another packages update, and that I shouldn't
 have to download and untar a sumo tarball? 
Yes, that's the way it *should* work.  OTOH, at the moment you'll need
to get the efs and xemacs-base packages to be able to do a packages
update.  See <
http://www.xemacs.org/Install/> for more info.
 Now, when I try to run it (from my home directory) I
 get interesting variations of this:
 
   $ xemacs
   xemacs ... temacs can only be run in -batch mode
   $ type xemacs
   xemacs is a tracked alias for /usr/local/bin/xemacs
   $ /usr/local/bin/xemacs
   <starts normally>
 
 I have no idea what the temacs message is all about,
 and even less why it goes away when I use the full
 pathname. 
AFAICT, this is caused by using --pdump (somebody else will have to shed
light on the gory details).  Removing the alias and prepending
/usr/local/bin/ to PATH should work.
-- 
\/ille Skyttä
scop at 
xemacs.org