From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 7 07:04:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA00674 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 7 Feb 1997 07:04:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from haywire.DIALix.COM (news@haywire.DIALix.COM [192.203.228.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA00649 for ; Fri, 7 Feb 1997 07:04:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (from news@localhost) by haywire.DIALix.COM (8.8.4/8.8.2) id XAA17992 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 7 Feb 1997 23:04:25 +0800 (WST) X-Authentication-Warning: haywire.DIALix.COM: news set sender to usenet-request@haywire.dialix.com using -f Received: from GATEWAY by haywire.DIALix.COM with netnews for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (problems to: usenet@haywire.dialix.com) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 11:48:34 GMT From: mark@putte.seeware.DIALix.oz.au (Mark Hannon) Message-ID: Organization: Private FreeBSD site References: Subject: Re: xemacs error Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article , ben@narcissus.ml.org (Stranger Bone) writes: > I recompiled and reinstalled xemacs (don't ask why) and now it won't > start. I get the following message: > > Initialization error: Cannot open load file: term/generic-win > > There's a lot of other crud too but I think this is the important part. > I can post the rest if necessary. > > The only thing I can think of is that I installed Lesstif since the last > time I compiled xemacs. But I doubt it's related. > I would suspect that it is related. I assume that you used the ./configure script in xemacs?? In that case the Motif (lesstiff) headers would have been found and used. You can check this by seeing if motif is linked into the binary (with ldd xemacs). I think that there is some option to the configure script to get it to ignore any found motif libraries. /mark -- +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ | Mark Hannon,| FreeBSD, Free Unix for your PC | mark@seeware.DIALix.oz.au| | Melbourne, | PGP key available by fingering | epamha@epa.ericsson.se | | Australia | seeware@melbourne.DIALix.oz.au | | +-=-=-=-=-=-=-+-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+