just now made an emacs (on gnome). Problem: thinks I'm vt100 or something!

[David Combs]

Just made an emacs (23.1) on Solaris 10 sparc.  Was
using gnome when I did it.

./configure  ... ... --with-gif=no  ...

Now, I thought that the use for libgif (or giflib?) was
so that you could show *photographs*, things like that.

(I used the with-gif=no because, on comp.unix.solaris,  that was 
how I was told to do the configure.)

Anyway, that and the make (gmake) worked ok.

And when I actually ran the newly-built emacs (in ../src/),
hooray!, I finally had an emacs on this otherwise naked machine.

But it sure didn't look like the ntemacs I'm running on xp,
with the large fancy colorful "script" EMACS it showed on
starting up.

No such luck.  What I got was like 30 years ago emacs running
on an ADM-3a or vt-100: took no advantage of the gnome gui
it was running under.

Question: could that "no gif" do that?  (I hope not!)

So, what might I have done wrong?

---

I was executing it from terminal-window's tcsh command-line,
rather than by clicking an icon.  SURELY that has nothing
to do with it -- but do tell me if I'm wrong.


Thanks for any advice!


David