xemacs-21.5.17 with red hat enterprise linux 3.0

[giacomo boffi]

Prakash Dayal writes:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > I compiled and installed xemacs-21.5.17 on red hat enterprise linux 3.0 
 > successfully with xemacs-sumo.tar.gz packages,  but when I am starting 
 > xemacs with command 'xemacs', the xemacs is being started in the same 
 > shell in which the command 'xemacs' is invoked. My question is: how can 
 > I start xemacs in a seperate GUI (graphical user interface) after 
 > executing the command on a shell prompt?

 my answer^Wguess is:
    your system has not the X header files installed
 => your executable does not support X

 please look at the value of Installation-string

 [1: open your xemacs,
  2: in the *scratch* buffer write "(insert Installation-string)"
     without quotes
  3: press RET and C-j]

 read what is printed about the "Window System"

 if it says what amounts to _"NO X window system"_, you should install
 the packages supporting X development and a bunch of other devel
 packages (Xaw3d, pnm, jpeg, xpm are the ones that spring to mind,
 but i think that you could look at the dependencies that your
 distribution lists for the source package install of xemacs)

hth, ciao