Re: Using X (instead of a terminal) in Emacs compiled from CVS

[Jay Cotton]

Well, configure options aside, one problem was that I didn't have 
xlib-dev installed on the system. Once I got that everything worked 
(with the default options for configure, as you suggested).

Thanks.

Sean Sieger wrote:

> Jay Cotton <jay@fleeingrabbit.com> writes:
>
>   I am trying to set up the latest Emacs on Ubuntu (to replace the 
>   slighter older version I got with apt-get). I configured --with-x and 
>   compiled/installed without any issues, but when I execute the new Emacs, 
>   it runs in the terminal instead of an X window. The older Emacs will run 
>   happily with or without X. Any Ubuntu/Debian users out there know what 
>   could be different with the one that I compiled?
>
> Jay, I compiled CVS Emacs on Ubuntu GNU/Linux with no options,
> I may be wrong, but that option is to configure Emacs to compile
> with no X, '--with-x=no', instead of the default in which the
> configure script looks for X.
>